The Brown God 



and His White Imps 



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Evils of Tobacco and Cigarettes 



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THE BROWN GOD 

AND HIS WHITE IMPS 



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The Evils of 
Tobacco and 
Cigarettes .... 



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Prepared and Edited by 

THEO. F. FRECH, A. M., D. D., 
And L. H. HIGLEY 



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L. H. HIGLEY, 

PUBLISHER 
Butler, Indiana. 



Copyright 1916 

ByL. H. HIGLEY 

Butler, Ind. 



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FEB 26 1917 

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FOREWORD 

The Tobacco Evil, next to the liquor traffic, is 
the greatest evil in this land. The more violent, im- 
mediate and visible affects of the Liquor Traffic has 
led most of us to regard it as by far the greatest en- 
emy to civilization, but a careful and reasonably 
adequate study of the Evil Affects of Tobacco will 
convince any intelligent person that Tobacco is at 
least a very close second to Liquor, if not a greater 
evil in the aggregate. 

None of us have a complete or accurate concep- 
tion of the enormity of the Evil Affects of Tobacco. 
The only way these evils can be adequately compre- 
hended would be, if possible, to measure the differ- 
ence between the lifetime's work of a generation of 
clean, energetic, honest, beneficient, intellectually 
and physically vigorous men; and a generation of 
men more or less filthy, indolent, dishonest, depend- 
ent and debilitated in body and mind by the use of 
tobacco from youth. 

Tobacco, attacking as it does, such a large per 
cent of our young manhood, in the tender years of 
its development, blighting and blasting as it does 
their physical and mental growth, gnawing at their 
yitality like a loathsome disease, the forerunner of 



drink and all the abominable things that go with it, 
make it an evil to be compared only with the Liquor 
Traffic. 

Few Christian ministers, philanthropists and 
Christian laymen have awakened to the enormity of 
this evil. The removal of the Liquor Traffic alone 
will not give us a physically, mentally and morally 
clean and vigorous manhood. The work to be com- 
plete must be followed by the removal of the Tobac- 
co business. 

We commend to ministers and Christian work- 
ers generally, a careful reading and study of this 
little v book and all similar literature to be had upon 
the subject; and the immediate laying of the foun- 
dation for a battle that must be fougfit and won be- 
fore the perfect fruits of the removal of the Liquor 
Traffic can be realized. The Publisher. 



INDEX 

CHAPTER I. The Sacrifice of Money % 

Cost of Smoking and Chewing 7 

Indirect Cost of Tobacco 

Destroys the Fertility of Soil 

Time Wasted Lighting Pipes 

Medical Bills Increased 

Cost of Pipes 

Asylums and Almshouses 



CHAPTER II. How Tobacco Affects the Body. .15 

Tobacco Affects the Teeth 20 

Injures the Voice 22 

Impairs the Senses 28 

The Appetite 27 

Indigestion 28 

Leads to Drunkenness 29 

Injures Blood and Heart .30 

On the Lungs 31 

Nervous System 32 

Produces Disease 33 

CHAPTER III. How Tobacco Affects the Mind. .36 

Destroys the Mind * 39 

Cause Insanity 42 

Weakens the Intellect 43 

CHAPTER IV. The Deadly Cigarette 46 

More Poisonous Than Other Forms .46 

Their Affect on the Young 48 

Lead to Drink, Morphine and Opium 50 

Affect on School Boys 51 

More Girls than Boys Graduate 53 

Experiments of a Doctor 54 

An Insane Boy 55 

Freeing the Slave 56 

The Experience of a Judge . . 58 

Practiced Among Girls 60 

Degenerating as a Nation 61 

Cigarette Eye 61 

A Summary 62 

CHAPTER V. The Use of Tobacco a Sin 64 

Tobacco Brings the User Under Bondage 66 

Condemned by Scripture Because Filthy 68 

.Living After the Flesh 70 

A Sin Against the Body 74 



CHAPTER VI. The Anti-Tobacco Battle 82 

The Magnitude of the Evil 82 

Tobacco Must Follow Liquor 83 

A Herculean Task 83 

Methods to Pursue 85 

A Campaign of Education 86 

The Need of Organization 87 

Object of Organization 89 

Co-operation with Public Schools 90 

Legislation Against the Evil 91 

CHAPTER VII. Short Stories About Tobacco ... 94 

A Child's Sad Death 94 

Giving Up Tobacco 95 

104 Years Old and Used Tobacco 96 

The Culprit 's Ruling Passion 97 

Bad Habits Hard to Break 97 

Some Experiments 98 

Good Security 99 

"What King James Thought of Tobacco 100 

"What a Woman Did for a Boy 101 

Cured of a Bad Habit. 105 

' ' Dat Ole Pipe ' ' 106 

The Old Farmer's Tobacco 108 

Smoking Tobacco 108 

A Warning Not Heeded - 109 

Vice Somewhere 109 

A Eef ormed Man 's Testimony 110 

A Minister *s Repentance Ill 

Praying Over Tobacco 112 

Money for Foreign Missions 113 

A Battle With Appetite 115 

Saved From Tobacco 116 

Tobacco and Conversion 117 

Abondoning Smoking : 118 

Marks of Tobacco 118. 

The Parable of the Tobacco Seed 119 

A Minister Rebuked 120 

Why Brother Thoughtful Never Used Tobacco 121 

More Destructive than Saloons 123 

How the Cigarette Figures 123 

Use of Cigarettes Rapidly Increasing 123 

Affeets of Tobacco Inherited by Children 124 

The Wily Weed (A Poem) 125 

The Indian 's Revenge (A Poem) 125 



The Brown God. 



CHAPTER I. 
THE SACRIFICE OF MONEY 

1 ' Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves serv- 
ants to obey, his servants ye are." Rom. 6:16. 

'XVEE extent to which Tobacco is, in a sense, the 
-*■ god of this country, is shown principally by the 
tremendous sacrifice of money made to it. 

The annual amount spent directly for tobacco is 
not less than $350,000,000, and estimates made by 
the most competent and reliable people of the total 
expense for tobacco and its accessories range all the 
way from that amount to $1,200,000,000. Only the 
cost of bread and whiskey exceed that amount. 

Think of the people of this enlightened country 
sacrificing such an amount to the satisfaction of a 
sin-created appetite ! And the money is worse than 
wasted, for it serves no good purpose and is destruc- 
tive to both body and mind and is often obtained at 
the sacrifice of real comforts and necessities. 

How wretched and disgusting is that filthy pic- 
ture of humanity which is so common — a family 
spending from forty to one hundred dollars a year 



6 THE BROWN GOD 

for tobacco and yet all, even the helpless infant, suf- 
fering for proper food and clothing and living in a 
house without the ordinary comforts of life ! 

A family had lived nine years without a single 
window light or as much as a hole through the wall 
for a window, and yet during these years their to- 
bacco bill did not fall short of two or three hundred 
dollars. This is a sample of the shiftless poor un- 
der the tobacco plague. The nasty weed is a cruel 
tyrant over them. The demands of this god must 
be met even if the family is destitute of food and 
clothing. 

And it is not only the shiftless poor that sacri- 
fice to this god. Bishop Thompson stated in one of 
his addresses, that the church spends more money 
for tobacco than would support her ministry at home 
and her missions abroad. 

Dr. Charles W. Elliot, president of the American 
Federation of Sex Hygiene, has prepared the follow- 
ing table of expenditures : 

Intoxicating liquors $2,290,000,000 

Tobacco 1,200,000,000 

Jewelry and plate . 800,000,000 

Automobiles 500,000,000 

Church work at home 250,000,000 

Confectionery 200,000,000 

Soft drinks 120,000,000 

Tea and coffee 100,000,000 

Millinery 90,000,000 

Patent medicines 80,000,000 

Chewing gum 13,000,000 

Foreign Missions 12,000,000 



THE SACRIFICE OF MONEY 7 

Cost of Smoking and Chewing. 

The cost of one cigar or one chew of tobacco is 
small, but in the course of years or a life-time many 
thousand repetitions of that expense amounts to 
large sums. 

Two cigars a day at 5 cents each, for fifty years 
at 6 per cent interest compounded semi-annually, a- 
mounts to $11,469.00. Three cigars a day at 5 cents 
each will amount to $16,216.37. Chewing 1 cents 
worth a day amounts to $1,146.92, in fifty years. 
Chewing 25c worth a week amounts to $4,096.12 in 
50 years. 

Suppose a boy begins the use of tobacco at ten 
years of age ; suppose he spends five cents each day 
for tobacco until he is forty years of age ; and sup- 
pose he could have received seven per cent com- 
pound interest for the money thus used; how 
much would his tobacco bill represent? Not less 
than $1,723. But what adult smoker spends only 
five cents a day ? 

A business man expends thirty-seven and one- 
half cents a day for six or eight cigars. At the rate 
of interest suggested above, what would be his to- 
bacco bill in only ten years? $1,885.45. In twenty 
years? $5,594.40. In thirty years? $12,890.57. 

At fifty cents a day, and at the same rate of in- 
terest for thirty years, we have a tobacco bill of 
$17,239. 

But these are not idle figures alone. Mr. L. P. 
Hubbard, of 76 Wall street, New York, has given the 
whole subject a personal test. He says he began 
the use of tobacco at the age of twelve, and for some 



8 THE BROWN GOD 

years thereafter he continued the habit. Suddenly 
he resolved to emancipate himself "from a slavery 
worse than Egyptian bondage. " 

At the time of this resolve he was using six good 
cigars a day, at a cost of thirty-seven and one-half 
cents. This amount he placed regularly in the sav- 
ings bank, receiving seven per cent interest on all 
deposits. He found these amounts represented a 
yearly saving of $136.50. 

For fifty-nine years Mr. Hubbard placed his to- 
bacco money in the bank. What had his savings 
from six cigars a day brought him? The sum of 
$103,626.32. 

This seems hardly probable. But on a leaflet 
he has printed is a table so that any one may see for 
himself. Mr. Hubbard concludes by saying: "Great 
as this saving has been it is not to be compared with 
improved health, a clear head and steady hand, at 
the age of over 83 years." 

Yet men will continue to smoke; continue to 
live in rented houses; and continually remain too 
poor to enjoy many comforts and even luxuries 
which the money they have worse than wasted might 
bring them. 

A highly respected and wealthy citizen of one of 
our cities, a man now over 80 years of age, has made 
an interesting calculation as to the cost of the cigars 
he has smoked during his life-time. He began to 
smoke when quite young, and has always used the 
Tery best quality of cigars. The period of his smok- 
ing covers sixty-seven years. He knows the amount 
he has expended, and calculated the sum invested in 



THE SACRIFICE OF MONEY 9 

tigars every six months, and placing it at compound 
interest at 6 per cent. On the basis of the savings 
bank calculations, he finds that the total sum now a- 
mounts to $200,000. It seems like an enormous sum 
to have been wasted in smoke. But the gentleman, 
who has been a successful business manager and 
methodical in keeping his account, spent a good 
many hours in making up this cigar account, and he 
is satisfied that the sum of $200,000, including the 
interest compounded once in six months, is correct. 



"Jones, have you heard of the fire that burned 
up the man's house and lot?" 

"No, Smith; where was it?" 

"Here in the city." 

"What a misfortune to him! Was it a good 
house?" 

"Yes; a nice house and lot — a good home for 
any family." 

"What a pity! How did the fire begin?" 

"The man played with fire, and thoughtlessly 
set it burning himself. ' ' 

"How silly! Did you say the lot was burned 
too?" 

"Yes; lot and all — all gone, slick and clean." 

"That is singular. It must have been a terribly 
hot fire ; and then I don't see how it could have burn- 
ed the lot." 

"No ; it was not a very hot fire. Indeed, it was 
«o small that it attracted but little attention, and did 
not alarm anybody." 

"But how could such a little fire burn up & 



10 THE BROWN GOD 

house and lot? You haven't told me." 

"It burned a long time — more than twenty 
years ; and, though it seemed to consume very slow* 
ly, yet it consumed about one hundred and fifty dol- 
lars' worth every year, till it was all gone." 

1 * I can not understand you yet. Tell me where 
the fire was kindled, and all about it. ' ' 

"Well, then, it was kindled on the end of a ci- 
gar. The cigar cost him, he himself told me, $12.50 
per month, or $150 a year, and that in twenty-one 
years would amount to $3,150, besides all the inter- 
est. Now, the money was worth at least ten per 
cent, and at that rate, it would double once in about 
every seven years; so that the whole sum would be 
more than $10,000. That would buy a fine house 
and lot in any city. It would pay for a large farm 
in the country. Don't you pity the family of the 
man who has slowly burned up their home?" 

"Whew! I guess you mean me; for I have 
smoked more than twenty years. But it doesn't 
cost so much as that, and I haven't any house of my 
own ; have always rented ; thought I was too poor to 
own a house. And all because I have been burning 
it up ! What a fool I have been !" 

The boys would better never light a fire which 
costs so much, and which, though so easily put out, 
is yet so likely, if once kindled, to keep burning all 
their lives. 

Indirect Cost of Tobacco. 

Millions of dollars' worth of property have 
been destroyed by smokers. The great fire which 
commenced on Battery Wharf, Boston, July 27, 1855 



THE SACRIFICE OP MONEY 11 

was no doubt set by a workman who was smoking a- 
mong the loose and drying cotton. The loss was 
$500,000. 

The great fire at London in 1861, which destroy- 
ed eleven millions, was said to have originated from 
spontaneous combustion in hemp; but the chances 
are ten to one that the cause was a workman's pipe. 

Some years ago a gentleman in Jamaica Plain 
was passing his barn, and saw smoke coming out of 
the door. On following it back into the harness- 
room he saw fire in a coat ; and, on taking it up to 
throw it out of the barn, a pipe dropped from it, 
showing the cause of the fire. 

An insurance company says: " One-third or 
more of all the fires have originated from matches 
or pipes. Fires in England and fires in America are 
being kindled with alarming frequency by smokers 
casting about their fire-brands, or half-burned 
matches." 

It was from a match thrown down by a smoking 
plumber that the Harper's printing establishment 
took fire, consuming five blocks, at a loss of about a 
million dollars, and throwing nearly two thousand 
people out of work. 

Destroys the Fertility of the Soil. 

Tobacco is said to make heavier demands upon 
the fertility of land than almost any other crop 
known. 

Tobacco exhausts the land beyond all other 
crops. As proof of this, every homestead from the 
Atlantic border to the head of tide-water is a mourn- 
ful monument. It has been the besom of destruc- 



12 THE BROWN GOD 

tion which has swept over this once fertile region. 

The old tobacco lands of Maryland and Virginia 
are an eye-sore — odious " barrens," looking as 
though blasted by some genius of evil. 

There are those who claim that the land can be 
kept in good condition by the free use of fertilizers. 
But the experience of many years furnishes evidence 
that this crop ultimately exhausts the soil, and that 
in consequence its culture is deprecated by the bet- 
ter class of agriculturists. 

Time Wasted Lighting Pipes. 

The time wasted by users of tobacco, especially 
by smokers, is no small item. Bead the advertise- 
ments of "situations wanted" and you will often 
find the words, "no tobacco," no cigarettes." Why? 
Because thoughtful employers know that smokers 
not only endanger their property from fire, but they 
consume no inconsiderable amount of time, cleaning, 
refilling and lighting pipes, which means more to the 
employer than the mere wages paid for that time. 
In order for an employer to give employment to a 
man, he must have invested money in machinery, 
buildings, lands, material to work upon, light, heat, 
power, etc. These cost him money, often equal to or 
more than the man's wages. So that the time lost 
by the employee, cleaning, filling and lighting his 
pipe, costs the employer about double the cost of the 
time lost. 

A smoker will consume from one to three min- 
utes to refill and light his pipe. A smoker will often 
smoke ten pipes full a day. At 3 minutes spent fill- 
ing and re-lighting, makes 30 minutes lost a day, 150 



THE SACRIFICE OF MONEY 13 

hours in a year. If lie gets 25 cents an hour, he 
prabably costs his employer 50c per hour, and his 
pipe causes his employer a loss of $75 a year or $750 
in ten years — enough to buy a fair quality automo- 
bile. So the intelligent employer avoids the smoker. 

A smoker may easily waste enough of his time 
to make himself a non-dividend producer for his 
employer. 

Medical Bills Increased. 

Tobacco, being a poison has an injurious effect 
on every part of the body and thus aggravates and 
increases the severity of many diseases, and actually 
produces others, so that it increases bills for medi- 
cines and doctor's services. Chapters II and III will 
deal with this, the Effect of Tobacco on the body and 
mind. 

Cost of Pipes. 

This cost is generally small in each individual 
case, but is quite large in the aggregate. In the 
London Exhibition, there were four amber mouth- 
pieces valued at 250 guineas each. A plain, small, 
serviceable meerschaum pipe now costs seven dollars 
in New York, and the prices rise from that sum to a 
thousand dollars. 

The poor laborer, with his clay pipe costing a 
cent, and the rich man with beautifully colored 
meerschaum, alike contribute to swell the total here. 
And besides pipes there are many smoking conven- 
iences and accessories which should not be overlook- 
ed. 

Asylums and Alms-houses. 

In order to make a fair estimate of what this 



14 THE BROWN GOD 

drug costs the country, we ought to visit our alms- 
houses and houses of correction, our reform schools, 
insanse asylums, jails, and penitentiaries, to which 
poverty, disease, and crime resulting from the to- 
bacco habit, with intemperance following in its wake, 
bring hundreds and thousands. For the support of 
all these we are taxed, and that doubly since we are 
also assessed to supply many of them with the very 
poison that brought them there. 

"We complain that we are poor; but who can 
look at the cost of tobacco and liquor without won- 
dering that we are not poorer? Stewards find it 
hard to collect money sufficient for the support of 
the ministry; a collection is taken for some benevo- 
lent purpose, and how small is the amount! Our 
Missionary Society has a hard struggle to meet the 
demands made upon it. We pay dollars for self- 
gratification and self-indulgence, and cents for the 
spread of the Gospel! As a rule people love the 
gratification of a useless appetitie more than they 
love their God. 

How often will a man go through life without 
owning a home, when the money that he spends on 
this narcotic, if put on interest, would be ample for 
the purchase of one ! How many families are cramp- 
ed for the necessaries of life because the husband 
and father will not give up his cigar! And how 
many a man reduced to beggary holds on to his pipe ! 

If the $350,000,000 or more a year now sacrific- 
ed to this evil, were turned into useful channels, what 
wonderful material blessings it would bring to our 
people? A subject for profitable speculation. 



CHAPTER II. 
HOW TOBACCO AFFECTS THE BODY 

* ' Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy 
Ghost V I Cor. 6:19. 

1 ' If any man defile the temple of God him shall God de- 
stroy, for the temple of God is holy." I Cor 3:17. 

WE SHOULD understand at the outset that the 
active agent in Tobacco in all its forms, is an 
actual and virulent poison known as Nicotine, which 
next to prussic acid, is the most deadly of all poisons. 
Von Enlenberg, in his analysis of tobacco, states that 
every one hundred pounds of dry leaf yields from 
tv/o to seven pounds of nicotine. Three drops of this 
oil of tobacco upon the tongue of a full-sized cat usu- 
ally causes death in from three to ten minutes. 

*Even when used as a medicine it is so uncongen- 
ial to the system and of so baneful a tendency that 
physicians now seldom administer it. In many in- 
stances where it has been applied internally or even 
externally, it has caused death in a very short peri- 
od. A tobacco poultice applied to the pit of the 
stomach causes terrible vomiting. Its application 
to the head produces similar effects. 

Dr. Beach tells of a girl about seven years of 
age in good health, who was seized with incessant 

*We are indebted to the Gospel Trumpet Co., Anderson, 
Ind., for matter contained in this and the following Chapter. 



16 THE BROWN GOD 

vomiting by merely having an ointment of butter 
and snuff applied to her head, which was affected 
with scabies. 

"A medical gentleman in New Hampshire a few 
years ago was consulted by the mother of a girl four 
years old who was afflicted with a severe eruption or 
humor on the face. The mother was anxious, from 
having heard stories of its efficacy in other cases, to 
make an application of tobacco. The physician, 
however, advised to the contrary, and left her, to 
visit her sick neighbor. While prescribing for the 
latter, he was called back in haste to the child, whom 
he found senseless and motionless on the floor. The 
mother informed him that being still persuaded that 
tobacco would be beneficial, she had, after he retir- 
ed, taken some from the bowl of a pipe and rubbed it 
over the child 's face ; that the child set out to walk 
across the room immediately after the application, 
but had not proceeded half-way before it fell in the 
condition in which he found it. The physician re- 
mained an hour and a half, resorting to various 
means of resuscitating the child. The pulse occa- 
sionally reviving and then dying away again, until 
finally animation was restored ; though for years af- 
terward the child was subject to alarming nervous 
symptoms and is even now puny and feeble. The 
constitution of the child previous to the experiment 
was good; but the shock upon the nervous system 
was so severe that it never wholly recovered, and 
probably never will." 

Dr. Murray relates the history of three children 
who were seized with vomiting, vertigo, and profuse 



HOW TOBACCO AFFECTS THE BODY 17 
perspiration, and died in twenty-four hours with 
tremors and convulsions, after having the head rub- 
bed with a liniment made from tobacco, in hope of 
freeing them from scurf. 

"The tea of twenty or thirty grains of tobac- 
co/' says Dr. Mussey, "introduced into the human 
body for the purpose of relieving spasm, has been 
known repeatedly to destroy life." 

The French poet Santa Santeul was poisoned 
by a thoughtless person's emptying the contents of 
a snuff-box into his wine. As soon as he had swal- 
lowed the draught, he was attacked with excessive 
pains, violent vomitings, and faintings, of which he 
died in fourteen hours. 

"A youth of fourteen, after smoking for tooth- 
ache," says Dr. Drahen, "fell down suddenly and 
died the same day." 

Dr. M. Lauden of France says, "It is the appall- 
ing testimony of a college of physicians, that twenty 
thousand persons in our land die annually from to- 
bacco poison." 

A member of one of the largest tobacco firms in 
St. Louis said recently that tobacco kills more men 
than alcohol. When manufacturers themselves say 
this, is it not time for Christian men to sound the a- 
larm? Agriculturists say that it soon poisons the 
soil on which it grows, or that it impoverishes the 
soil more than any other plant in the vegetable king- 
dom. 

Kempfer says, "A thread dipped into the oil 
and drawn through a wound made by a needle in an 
animal has killed it in seven minutes." 



18 THE BROWN GOD 

"The Indians of our country, " says the Journal 
of Health, "are well aware of its poisonous effects, 
and were accustomed to dipping the heads of their 
arrows in an oil obtained from the leaves of tobacco, 
which being inserted into the flesh occasioned sick- 
ness and faintings, and even convulsions and death.' ' 

Mr. Barrow, the African traveler, tells us that 
the Hottentots use this plant for destroying snakes. 
"A Hottentot," says he, "applied some of it from 
the short end of his wooden pipe to the mouth of a 
snake while darting out its tongue. The effect was 
as instantaneous as that of an electric shock. With 
a momentary convulsive motion, the snake half un- 
twisted itself and never stirred more. Its muscles 
were so contracted that the whole animal felt as 
hard and as rigid as if dried in the sun." 

Any tobacco-user doubting this remarkable tes- 
timony will be convinced of its authenticity by cap- 
turing a live snake, placing a foot upon its neck to 
prevent it from biting, prying open its mouth and 
spitting tobacco juice into it. You will find that it 
will go into terrible convulsions and die quicker 
than by cutting off its head. Take the oil from the 
bowl of an old pipe and place it upon a cat's tongue, 
and it will die in a very few minutes. 

A pound of tobacco contains an average of 320 
grains of nicotine, and it is said that one grain will 
kill a dog in three minutes. It was related of some 
soldiers in Canada, that when under hard service, 
they contrived to unfit themselves for duty by plac- 
ing a moistened leaf of tobacco in the armpit. It 
caused sickness at the stomach and general prostra- 



HOW TOBACCO AFFECTS THE BODY 19 
tion. The poison of tobacco, set free by the process 
of either chewing, smoking, or snuffing, when for the 
first time it is swept through the system by the blood, 
powerfully affects the body. Nausea folloAvs, and the 
stomach seeks to throw off the offensive substance. 
The brain is inflamed and headache follows. The 
motory nerves become irritated, giddiness ensues. 

Thus we see that nature earnestly protests a- 
gainst the formation of this habit. But after repeat- 
ed trials, the system adjusts itself to the new con- 
ditions. The tolerance of the poison is finally es- 
tablished, until the former symptoms are no longer 
noticeable. But such powerful substances can not 
be constantly inhaled without producing marked 
changes. The three great eliminating organs, the 
lungs, the skin, and the kidneys, throw off a great 
part of the product, but much remains in the system. 
When the presence of poison is constant, especially 
when the habit is indulged in excessively, these or- 
gans become overtaxed and the disturbance which 
at first is merely functional must necessarily, in 
many cases at least, lead to chronic derangement. 
Sometimes the strong and healthy will seem to es- 
cape without any visible effect, while the weak and 
those subject to disease will be infused in proportion 
to the extent of indulgence. 

However, it is an established fact that all who 
persist in continuing the indulgence of this self-de- 
stroying habit must sooner or later, in some way or 
another, be affected by its poisonous influence. Be- 
yond the shadow of a doubt tobacco is a poison — 
deadly in large doses; pernicious and harmful in 



20 THE BROWN GOD 

Email doses. It deteriorates and contaminates every 
organ and tissue with which it comes in contact in 
the body. Its influence is to lessen vitality, to be- 
numb the sensibilities, to shorten the life, to kill. 
Tobacco Affects the Teeth. 

There are a great many persons who believe that 
however dangerous may be the effects of tobacco, it 
surely does preserve the teeth, specially when chew- 
ed. This, however, is a very sad mistake. There 
are no preserving qualities in tobacco. We shall 
prove to you that it is a destructive enemy to the 
teeth; 

It is true that tobacco is used, both by chewing 
and by smoking for toothache. We admit that in 
many cases it affords relief and prevents pain. But 
does it remove the cause ? Does it cure the diseased 
tooth ? No. It only benumbs the nerves. It has the 
same effect as chloroform upon the man who under- 
goes a surgical operation. He has no consciousness 
of pain, but still the disease remains uncured. 

There is creosote in the fumes of tobacco, and 
this creosote is used by dentists to kill the nerves of 
teeth. So, tobacco smoke or quid, applied to the 
teeth, in many cases deadens the pain, and gives 
temporary relief. But who has ever known of a 
single case where a positive cure was affected? It 
is a noticeable fact that those who use tobacco for 
the toothache never stop using it when the tooth 
stops aching. 

The soundness of the teeth is always in propor- 
tion to the soundness of the gums, and the lining 
membrane of the mouth, and the whole alimentary 



HOW TOBACCO AFFECTS THE BODY 21 

canal. Tobacco makes the gums loose and spongy 
and injures the lining membrane of the alimentary 
canal, especially of the stomach. Therefore the ap- 
plication of tobacco to the gums and the inside of 
the mouth can not but hasten their decay. The gums 
become loose and diseased; the teeth are affected 
and wear out fast. 

Mussey says that "by observing the mouths of 
scores of individuals addicted to the tobacco habit, 
who boasted of the soundness of their teeth and of 
freedom from toothache, I have seen them so worn 
that they extended but a little way beyond the gums. 
In the part of the mouth where the quid was kept, 
this wearing out or wasting away is more obvious 
than in other parts.' * 

Dr. Alcot says, "The teeth of those who use to- 
bacco are in a less perfect state than those of other 
people." Dr. Rush speaks of a man in Philadelphia 
who lost all of his teeth by moking. Dr. "Warren, of 
Boston, says not only that the common belief that 
tobacco is beneficial to the teeth is entirely erron- 
eous, but also that its poisonous and relaxing quali- 
ties are positively injurious to them. 

Such is the general opinion of medical men, not 
only in this country, but also in Europe. True, we 
do find here and there an old tobacco-user whose 
teeth so far as they are not worn out are free from 
decay. But such cases are very rare and they prove 
nothing in favor of tobacco. They simply show that 
the individuals who thus held out had strong con- 
stitutions, without hereditary tendencies to disease 
of the alimentary canal and teeth, and that if in spite 



22 THE BROWN GOD 

of the tobacco their teeth were comparatively per- 
fect, they would have been still better had they ab- 
stained from it entirely. 

Besides causing premature decay, tobacco de- 
stroys the beauty of the teeth. Who has seen a to- 
bacco-user with ivory white teeth ? And who has not 
noticed the dark-brown color of the teeth of a tobac- 
co chewer, smoker, or snuffer? No doubt God in- 
tended that the teeth should last as long as the own- 
ers, yet in but few of the thousands of tobacco-users 
is this the case. 

Injures the Voice. 

Snuff-using impairs the voice by obstructing the 
air. Both the chewing and the smoking of tobacco 
cause a dryness of the nasal membrane, especially 
smoking. The smoke of tobacco contains many fine 
particles of the weed itself, and these lodge in the 
passage. We all know how soon smoke of any kind, 
especially tobacco smoke, will darken a white sur- 
face. This is done by depositing its fine dust, or 
soot, upon it. The lining membrane of the nasal 
passage receives this dark, filthy, poisonous, tobac- 
co soot, which causes dryness. If the habit be in- 
dulged in regularly, a certain amount of throat ir- 
ritation must ensue, such as weakness of the voice, 
tremulousness, squeaking or hoarseness, a tickling 
sensation, followed by a hacking cough. The voice 
becomes harsh, thick, husky, and stammering. 

W. H. Griffiths, professor of music, in his treat- 
ise on the human voice, says, "In every case of a 
singer being a habitual user of the weed, a dryness 
of the mucus membrane is noticed, much to the det- 



HOW TOBACCO AFFECTS THE BODY 23 
riment of the voice. " He advises all who value their 
voice to lay it aside. He further says : 

"A young pupil who at the age of eighteen took 
a violent fancy for smoking a pipe>, which indeed 
was seldom out of his mouth, contracted inflamma- 
tion of the pharynx, which affected his singing in a 
peculiar manner. His voice would sound most clear 
and brilliant for a few seconds; but afterwards, 
growing husky by degrees, a fit of coughing would 
ensue. This would generally terminate the lesson. 
In fact, it was found expedient to discontinue the 
study altogether. On examining him with the lar- 
yngoscope I discovered granulations covering the 
membrane as far down as the epiglottis, and on the 
lid itself. 

• 'In this gentleman's case it was especially un- 
fortunate, as he possessed one of the most perfectly 
shaped throats for vocalization that it has been my 
privilege to examine. He would, I am convinced, 
have made his mark in the vocal world were it not 
for the fatal habit. ' ' 

Dr. Woodward, of the State Hospital for the in- 
sane at Worcester, declares that one frequent cause 
of permanent loss of voice in modern times by public 
speakers, especially clergyman, is the use of tobacco 
in some of its forms. 

Impairs the Senses. 

There can be no doubt that the use of tobacco 
injuriously affects the sense. It can not be applied 
to the membranes in the region of the mouth, eyes, 
ears, nose, and brain, day by day, year after year, 



24 THE BROWN GOD 

without serious results. It impairs and benumbs 

and dulls the sense of 

TASTE 

go that plain food becomes tiresome, and it is not un- 
usual for the tobacco-user to add a large amount of 
seasoning, such as salt, pepper, mustard, and spices. 
"Water also, and even fruit, to the taste which has 
been perverted by tobacco, soon become insipid. 
Many reject fruit altogether. 

Who has not noticed the dull, flat taste of the to- 
bacco-user. Surely nothing can be relished after 
the mouth and throat have been exposed to the stim- 
ulus of the smoke or juice of tobacco. When the 
user first introduced tobacco to his mouth, the taste 
was anything but pleasant ; but the continued indul- 
gence has perverted the taste until the very thing 
that was once so disgusting has now become a sweet 
morsel. 

How many will agree with me that the average 
tobacco-user has more relish for his pipe and quid 
than he has for his meal ? I have heard many tobac- 
co-users say they would rather go without dinner 
than tobacco. Is it any wonder that food is not rel- 
ished and is refused when such a state of the taste 
exists? Some have continued the habit until the 
sense of taste has been almost entirely destroyed, 
and they are unable to discern the ^uilities of food 
by taste. 

SMELLING 

Perhaps snuff is more injurious to the sense of 
smell than is tobacco in any other form. Drs. Bell 
and Condie agree that snuff often entirely destroys 



HOW TOBACCO AFFECTS THE BODY 25 
the sense of smell and impairs the voice. Those who 
use tobacco to any extent have one or more of their 
senses less perfect by its use. In many cases chew- 
ing and smoking impair the smell, and some continue 
the use of it until they can hardly smell at all. The 
writer has had experience in both chewing and smok- 
ing, and his testimony is that the sense of melling is 
greatly benefited by discontinuing the habit. 

It is asserted that snuff-takers are peculiarly li- 
able to polypus and diseases of the nose. ' ' Common 
snuff, in habitual snuff-takers,' 7 says Dr. Beach, "has 
been known to penetrate into the sinuses communi- 
cating with the nose, and into the antrum where it 
has formed horrible abcesses. It is carried down in- 
to the stomach, and by the use of it the skin is ting- 
ed with a bright-brown color.' ' Many women have 
ruined their complexion by the use of it. 

Old Dr. Salmon says, ' ' The ordinary use of snuff 
is of very evil consequences, and I am confident that 
more have died of apoplexy in one year since the use 
of it than had died of that disease in one hundred 
years before." All physicians agree that snuff-us- 
ing is a very pernicious habit, but especially does it 
affect the nose and the sense of smell. 
HEARING 

Tobacco often produces catarrh of the nose and 
head, and diseases of the ear sometimes follow, pro- 
ducing confusion of sounds. This may be similar to 
the rushing of steam or the motion of water, also 
ringing of bells, clashing of cymbals, or pounding of 
iron, the ear being incapable of hearing distinctly. 
This may be due to the fact that the brain itself is 



26 THE BROWN GOD 

confused by the use of tobacco, and rendered unfit 

for the appreciation of sounds. In many cases the 

use of tobacco causes slight deafness, in one or both. 

ears. 

Dr. Mussey mentions the case of a Mr. Cum- 
mings, of Plymouth, N. H., who, enjoying the best of 
health, at the age of twenty years began the use of 
snuff and at the age of twenty-three began chewing 
and smoking, and continued in this way for thirty 
years, until his hearing was nearly destroyed. He was 
partially deaf for ten years, and at times the right 
ear was entirely deaf. In one month after discontin- 
uing the use of tobacco, his hearing was restored and 
none of the former symptoms ever returned. 
• SEEING 

The use of tobacco also affects the sight. Sel- 
dom do we find a tobacco-user or snuff-taker whose 
eyes are not more or less affected. Who can fail to 
see the terrible effects of tobacco upon the eyes of our 
rising generation? True, there are other crying sins, 
such as masturbation, which cause this sad condition. 

Many a young man has ruined his eyes by the 
use of this weed, and now he must, by the spectacles 
he wears, tell the world wherever he goes that he is a 
self -destroyer. It is safe to say that a great major- 
ity of those who wear eyeglasses before the age of 
fifty have detroyed their own eyes by the use of to- 
bacco, or by the sin of masturbation. I am often 
made to wonder if the young man or woman who so 
proudly dons the spectacles knows what they are 
telling the scientific world. 

Tobacco-using produces confusion of sight. At 



HOW TOBACCO AFFECTS THE BODY 27 
times sparks or balls of fire appear before the eyes. 
Again, large red spots haunt the vision, and deeply 
seated pains are felt. The nervous eoat becomes se- 
riously affected so that the object which impresses it 
is seen long after the eyes cease to look ; thus render- 
ing the vision imperfect, and sometimes resulting in 
total blindness. 

Dr. Alcot speaks of a man who used tobacco for 
many years and at the age of fifty-five could not read 
a word without spectacles. After he quit the habit 
his eyesight gradually, came back to him, and at the 
age of sixty-three his sight was better than most 
men's at his age. Being a surveyor, he was able to 
keep his minutes without spectacles. 

Tobacco, like all narcotics, powerfully affects 
the nerves. In fact, the entire nervous system is 
more or less affected. This being an undisputed 
fact, the nerves of the ears and eyes must suffer. 
They become weakened and stupefied, therefore they 
are unable to perform their proper function. 

Dr. Albert L. Gihon, says, ' ' I have several times 
rejected candidates for admission into the Naval A- 
cademy on account of defective vision, who confess- 
ed to the premature use of tobacco. One of these, 
from the age of seven.' ' 

The Appetite. 
We have already shown that the use of tobacco 
affects the sense of taste. It is a fact generally un- 
derstood by medical men that whatever injures or 
impairs the taste has also a tendency to impair the 
appetite. Dr. Rush says, especially, that it impairs 
the appetite. The habitual tobacco-user often feels 



28 THE BEOWN GOD 

a lack of appetite. Food is not relished as it should 

be, and sometimes it even becomes obnoxious. 

Again, the appetite becomes excited to so ab- 
normal a condition that the poor tobacco slave find* 
himself possessed with such a ferocious, gnawing ap- 
petite that nothing can fully satisfy it. Those who 
have given up the habit agree that in a short time 
they were blessed with a natural, healthy appetite. 
Indigestion 

Every medical man knows that the saliva, which 
is so copiously drained off by the tobacco-user, is the 
first and greatest agent that nature employs in di- 
gesting food. The use of tobacco injures digestion 
by causing the user to spit out the saliva which he 
ought to swallow. The saliva is not only intended to 
moisten the food in mastication, but there are prop- 
erties in it to digest the food after it passes into the 
stomach. 

The use of tobacco not only poisons the saliva 
that is taken into the stomach, but also weakens, 
dries up, and destroys the salivary glands in the 
mouth. The man who uses tobacco and spits away 
the overflow of saliva, spits away his life. The man 
who uses it and does not spit, retains the dreadful 
poison, to be carried through the entire system. The 
poisoned saliva enters the stomach and preys direct- 
ly upon the very vitals of the body, causing indiges- 
tion and dyspepsia. Who, in view of these facts, can 
wonder at the dizziness, the f aintness, the pain in the 
head and stomach, and the weakness of the victim of 
tobacco 1 

Dr. Stevens speaks of a young man twenty years 



HOW TOBACCO AFFECTS THE BODY 29 
of age, in general good health, whom, he says, he 
found in the full belief that he could not possibly di- 
gest his dinner until he had followed it by a quid of 
tobacco, and to whom he remarked, ''Can it be that 
God so made the stomach that it can not do its ap- 
pointed work, unless aided by a quid of tobacco, a 
pipe or a cigar ? ' ' 

There are those who are truly honest, but are so 
deceived that they believe tobacco aids in digestion. 
Some quack physicians have actually prescribed it 
as a cure. Nothing can be more absurd. There is 
not a living man today who can certify that tobacco 
has cured him of indigestion. 

I have known men to use it for years as a cure, 
so they argue, but never to get absolutely cured. 
But I am aware of the fact that some who have quit 
its use have gotten well of this disease. No man can 
ever expect a permanent cure of dyspepsia so long 
as he continues in a habit that causes the disease. 
Remove the cause — behold the glad results. 
Leads to Drunkenness. 

"The use of tobacco,' ' says Henry M. Brown, 
"produces a dryness or huskiness of the mouth, thus 
creating a thirst which in many cases is not satisfied 
with anything short of alcoholic drinks. In this way 
the use of tobacco often lays the foundation of 
drunkenness." One man calls it, in its many forms, 
the "tributaries to the great ocean of intemper- 
ance." "The tendency of every stimulant habit," 
says Dr. Steele, "is toward a stronger tonic, and the 
ticotine habit once introduced, the alcohol habit oft- 
en follows." 



30 TEE BROWN GOD 

Truly, the way to the rumshop is paved with to- 
bacco leaves. Very seldom do we find a drunkard 
who does not use tobacco. They go together. * ' To- 
bacco and alcohol, " says one, "are twin brothers." 
One demands the other, and especially where you 
find liquor, you nearly always find tobacco. 

There were 600 prisoners in. the state prison at 
Auburn, N. Y., a few years ago, for crimes commit- 
ted when under the influence of strong drink. Of 
these, 500 testify that they began their course of in- 
temperance by the use of tobacco. Prison statistics 
show, with scarcely an exception, that forgers, de- 
faulters, and swindlers use tobacco, while ninety- 
seven per cent, of all male convicts first lost their 
freedom by the bondage of tobacco. 

Over 700 drunkards joined the "Washingtonians 
in one society in Baltimore in 1840. All backslid ex- 
cept sixty-seven who abandoned strong drink and 
tobacco at the same time. 

Blood and Heart. 

The use of tobacco injures the red corpuscles of 
the blood and greatly disturbs the action of the 
heart and blood vessels. It has been recently shown 
that while the pulse is seventy-two among non-users, 
the average pulse of those addicted to the use of to- 
bacco is eight-nine — an increase of about seventeen 
pulsations every minute. This is to say that to ev- 
ery 1,000 pulsations in those who do not use it, there 
would be 1,233 in those who do use it. The effect of 
such an increased action of the heart is very injur- 
ious, giving it increased labors and increasing the 
number of beats about 24,000 a day. 



HOW TOBACCO AFFECTS THE BODY .31 

Who has not observed the numerous sudden 
deaths during the past few years from heart-trouble ? 
Dr. Alcot sa} r s that "of the men thus dying, it will be 
found that ninety-five, if not ninety-nine, in one 
hundred use tobacco or coffee or both excessively. 
In these cases there is a spasm or stoppage of the 
heart. The man falls and usually never speaks. I 
could name fifty who felt the premonitions of heart- 
trouble, and, quitting the use of tobacco and coffee, 
have been freed from it for ten, twenty, or thirty 
years." 

It is safe to say that nearly all the affections of 
the heart, such as palpitation, etc., are caused by the 
use of tobacco. 

On the Lungs. 

By the use of tobacco in any of its forms, the 
poisonous flavor is taken directly into the lungs. Es- 
pecially do the fumes of the pipe, the eigar and the 
cigarette work deadly destruction to this organ. 
The lungs are lined with mucous membrane exceed- 
ingly sensitive to anything but pure air. We have 
all noticed this when breathing anything offensive. 

The body needs food, clothing, sunshine, bath- 
ing, and drink, but none of these wants are so press- 
ing as pure air. Other wants may be met by occa- 
sional supply, but air must be furnished every mo- 
ment or we die. Now the vital element of pure air 
is oxygen gas. It is the stimulating, life-giving 
principle. No tonic is so invigorating as a few full 
breaths of pure, cool air. 

The breathing of air full of tobacco smoke 
brings on sore throat and is apt to cause inflaama- 



32 THE BROWN GOD 

tion of the lung tissues. Many diseases of the lungs 
are due to its use. Especially has it been known to 
cause the death of many by the dreadful disease of 
consumption. 

The man who forces his lungs to breathe in poi- 
sonous fumes of tobacco smoke is doing just what 
nature refuses to do. Tobacco smoke is full of car- 
bonic acid, just what the lungs at every breath are 
laboring to expel. Is it any wonder that men die of 
lung diseases when they shut themselves in a room 
for hours at a time, and poison themselves with the 
deadly tobacco smoke ? The lungs demand pure air. 
Yet the tobacco-smoker, thinking more of what he 
calls the comforting pipe than of the prolonging of 
his days, continues, in spite of the repulsing of hi9 
better nature, to poison every breath he draws. 
Nervous System. 

"The use of tobacco,' ' says Dr. Brown, seems to 
act directly on the nervous system, enfeebling, ex- 
hausting, and destroying the power of life." Dr. 
Trail also declares that it torpifies, paralyzes, and 
lowers the tone of the whole nervous system, and he 
says that the use of this pernicious weed is one of the 
chief causes of so much sterility among men. 

Dr. Pierce, in his "Medical Adviser," says: 
* * The use of tobacco is a pernicious habit, in whatev- 
er way it is introduced into the system. Its active 
principle, nicotine, which is an energetic poison, ex- 
erts its specific effects on the nervous system, tending 
to stimulate it into an unnatural degree of activity, 
the final result of which is weakness and even paral- 
ysis." 



HOW TOBACCO AFFECTS THE BODY 33 

The horse under the action of the whip and spur 
may exhibit great spirit and rapid movements, but 
urge him beyond his strength with these agents and 
you will inflict a lasting injury. Withhold the stim- 
uli and the drooping head and moping pace indicate 
the sad reaction that has taken place. This illus- 
trates the evils of habitually exciting the nerves by 
the use of tobacco. Under its action the tone of the 
system is greatly impaired and it responds more 
feebly to the influence of curatice agents. 

Tobacco itself, when its use becomes habitual 
and excessive, gives rise to the most unpleasant and 
dangerous pathological conditions, and general nerv- 
ous prostration must frequently warn the persons 
addicted to the habit that they are undermining the 
very foundation of health. 

Produces Disease. 

A great many of the complaints to which flesh, 
in its fallen state is heir are originated and aggravat- 
ed by tobacco. As we have already proved, the 
poisonous effects of tobacco are felt on every one of 
the vital organs. This being the case, who could ex- 
pect it to be used habitually without producing dis- 
ease? 

Dr. Rush says that even when used moderately, 
tobacco causes dyspepsia, headache, tremors, vertigo, 
and epilepsy ; also, many of those diseases which are 
supposed to be seated in the nerves. "I once lost a 
young man," he adds, "seventeen years of age, of 
a pulmonary consumption, whose disorder was 
brought on by smoking cigars. ' ' 

Dr. Woodward, after presenting a long array of 



34 THE BROWN GOD 

facts showing the tendency of tobacco to produce 
disease, apoplexy, aphony, hyochondria, consump- 
tion, epilepsy, headache, tremors, vertigo, dyspep- 
sia, cancer, and insanity, concluded by saying, 
"Who can doubt that tobacco, in each of the various 
ways in which it has been customarily used, has de- 
stroyed more valuable life, and broken down the 
health of more useful members of society, than the 
complaint in question (bronchitis), up to the present 
time, or than it ever will hereafter ? ' ' 

Dr. Brown, of Providence, says : ' ' The symptoms 
which are liable to arise from the habitual use of to- 
bacco, whether chewed, smoked, or snuffed, may be 
any of the following : dizziness, headache, f aintness, 
pain in pit of stomach, weakness, tremulousness, 
hoarseness of the voice, disturbed sleep, nightmare, 
irritability of temper, seasons of mental depression, 
epileptic fits, and sometimes mental derangement. ,, 

One of the most eminent surgeons in the country 
states that of the cases of cancer of the lip which 
have come within his observation, all but three were 
those of individuals who had at some period of their 
lives used tobacco in some of its forms. 

General Grant lost his life from a cancer caused 
by smoking cigars. The deaths of Senators Hill and 
Carpenter are also said to have resulted from the 
use of tobacco. 

Dr. Pierce says i ' Tobacco, when its use becomes 
habitual and excessive, gives rise to the most un- 
pleasant and dangerous pathological conditions : op- 
pressive torpor, weakness or loss or intellect, soften- 
ing of the brain, paralysis, nervous debility, dyspep- 



HOW TOBACCO AFFECTS THE BODY 35 
sia, functional derangement of the heart, diseases of 
the liver and kidneys, a sense of faintness, nausea, 
giddiness, dryness of the throat, trembling, feelings 
of fear, disquietude, apprehensiveness, and general 
nevous prostration. " 

Dr. Willard Parker, of New York, says that for 
many years his attention has been called to the posi- 
tive destructive effects of tobacco on the human sys- 
tem, and that he has found that excessive chewers or 
smokers of tobacco are more apt to die of epidemic! 
and not recover soon in a healthy manner from in- 
juries or fever. 

Dr. Shaw enumerates eighty diseases caused 
either directly or indirectly by the use of tobacco. 
Dr. Hammond, of Baltimore, declares: a As a physi- 
cian of forty years' practice, I give my decided opin- 
ion that tobacco has killed ten men where whisky 
has killed one. This, no doubt, will be disputed by 
physicians who indulge in the weed, but I believe it 
can be demonstrated that many of the chronic dis- 
eases to which the male population are subject, owe 
their origin to tobacco.' ' Dr. Grimshaw says: "So 
insidious are its effects that very few have regarded 
it as swelling the bills of mortality. It is neverthe- 
less true that multitudes are carried to the grave ev- 
ery year by tobacco alone." 

Says Dr. King, "A patient under treatment 
should give up the use of tobacco, or his physician 
should assume no responsibility in his case farther 
than to do the best he can for him." 



CHAPTER III. 
HOW TOBACCO AFFECTS THE MIND 

"Thou shalt love the Lord thy God * * with all thy 
mind." Matt. 22:37. 

1 A N OLD philosopher has said, ' ' There is nothing 
-*"*• great in the world but man ; there is nothing 
great in man but mind." Indeed the mind is the 
measure of the man. A weakened mind is a weak- 
ened man. 

There is a close connection between the body 
and the mind, so that when we injure or weaken the 
body, we usually injure or weaken the mind. When 
you destroy the mind, you destroy practically all 
that is useful or beautiful in man. The body with- 
out the mind is fit only for the grave. "Without a 
healthy mind, man can neither serve God nor his 
fellowmen as he ought. We cannot adequately keep 
the very first commandment with a mind that has 
been even partly destroyed. 

The ideal condition is a sound mind in a sound 
body. We have noticed the dreadful affects of to- 
bacco upon the senses, and since it is through these 
avenues that we receive a great part of our knowl- 
edge, it surely seems reasonable that the mental 
powers are likewise affected. 

Especially does the use of tobacco injure the 



HOW TOBACCO AFFECTS THE MIND 37 
memory. It is not an uncommon thing to hear old 
tobacco-users complain of their lack of memory. If 
you were to tell them that tobacco was the cause, 
they undoubtedly would not believe it. It is doubt- 
less a fact that there is nothing that destroys mem- 
ory as the habitual use of tobacco. Very few old to- 
bacco-users have a perfect and clear memory. Of 
all the preparations of tobacco, snuff seems to be the 
worst in proportion to its quantity. 

Says Dr. Stevens: "It impairs the functions of 
the brain, clouds the understanding, and enfeebles 
the memory. Tobacco is injurious to every faculty 
of the mind, and is ruinous to the intellect. ' ' 

Speaking of its effects, Gov. Sullivan said, "It 
has never failed to render me dull and heavy, to in- 
terrupt my usual alertness of thought, and to weaken 
the power of my mind in analyzing subjects and de- 
fining ideas.' ' 

The use of tobacco makes it difficult for the stu- 
dent to concentrate his mind upon his study. Before 
the full maturity of the system is attained, even the 
smallest amount of tobacco is very harmful. How 
sad to see so many of our youth enslaved by this 
dreadful habit ! In spite of all the warnings of med- 
ical science and physiology the cursed habit is in- 
creasing daily. 

I am sorry to say that in some of our public 
schools not only is there no teaching against this 
dangerous habit; but its use is even allowed on the 
grounds, and what is worse, some teachers, bound by 
the habit, furnish their pupils an example sure to be 
followed. Whenever a pupil forms the tobacco hab- 



38 THE BROWN GOD 

it, the chances of his advancement, either physically, 
morally, or intellectually, are greatly against him. 
It is a positive fact, whether it will be believed or 
not, that the use of tobacco in any of its forms, es- 
pecially where begun in youth, greatly tends to 
dwarf and stunt the entire being, soul, body, and 
mind. 

A practicing physician said that while attending 
school at a surgical institute, some of his class 
thought it necessary to use tobacco as a stimulant. 
Those who did not use it made far more progress 
than did their enslaved classmates. 

Dr. Fowler says : c ' The actual loss of intellectual 
power which tobacco has hitherto occasioned and is 
still causing in this Christian nation is immense. 
How much so it is impossible to calculate. Many a 
man who might have been respectable and useful has 
sunk into obscurity and buried his talent in the 
earth. This demands a consideration of deepest in- 
terest to every philanthropist, patriot, and Christian 
in the land, and especially to all our youth. We live 
in a time and under circumstances which call for the 
exertion of all our intellectual strength, cultivated, 
improved, and sanctified to the highest measure of 
possibility. Error, ignorance and sin must be met 
and vanquished by light and love. The eyes of an- 
gels are upon us. The eye of God is upon us. Shall 
we fetter and paralyze our intellectual capabilities 
for the sake of enjoying the paltry pleasure of tast- 
ing the most loathsome and destructive weed in the 
whole vegetable kingdom? Let us rather shake off 
this abominable practice, as individuals and as a na- 



HOW TOBACCO AFFECTS THE MIND 39 
tion in our intellectual potency, and let us go forth 
from day to day untrammeled by the quid, the pipe, 
and the snuff-box, and before another generation 
shall be laid in the grave our efforts and our example 
may cause the light of human science and of civil 
and religious liberty and of Bible truth to blaze 
through all our valley and over all our land with a 
luster which shall illuminate the world." 
Destroys the Mind. 

Dr. Mussey says : ' ' In the use of tobacco in any 
of its forms the following symptoms may arise : dis- 
turbed sleep, starting from early slumber with a 
sense of suffocation or feeling of alarm; incubus or 
nightmare; epileptic or convulsive fits; confusion or 
weakness of mental faculties; peevishness and ir- 
ritability of temper ; instability of purpose ; seasons 
of great depression of the spirits; long fits of un- 
broken melancholy and despondency; and in some 
cases entire and permanent mental derangement." 

Professor Stillman mentions an affecting case of 
a student in Yale College who fell a victim to the to- 
bacco habit. He entered the college with an athletie 
frame ; but he acquired the habit of using tobacco, 
and he would sit and smoke for hours. His friends 
tried to persuade him to discontinue the habit; but 
he loved his lust, and he would have it, live or die. 
The consequence was, he went down to the grave a 
suicide. 

He also mentions the case of another young man. 
in the same institution who was sacrificed in the 
same way by the poisonous weed. 

Dr. Bomare says, "The least evil which you can 



40 THE BROWN GOD 

expect it to do is to dry up the brain. ' ' 

T. Dewitt Talmage says in a sermon on tobacco : 
" About fifty years ago a young man graduated from 
Andover College and went into the ministry. He had 
eloquence and personal magnetism before which 
nothing could stand, and consequently went straight 
to the front. But he was soon thrown into the in- 
sane asylum for twenty years. The doctors said it 
was tobacco that sent him there. 

"According to the custom then in vogue, he was 
allowed a small quantity of tobacco every day. After 
he had been there nearly twenty years, walking the 
floor one day he had a sudden return of reason, and 
he realized what was the matter. He threw the plug 
of tobacco through the iron grate and said, 'What 
brought me here ? What keeps me here ? Why am 
I here? Tobacco! Tobacco! Tobacco! Oh! God 
help, help ! I will never use it again ! ' He was re- 
stored. He was brought forth and for ten years 
preached the gospel successfully, and went to a bliss- 
ful immortality. ' ' 

An eminent physician, for a long time superin- 
tendent of the insane asylum at North Hampton, 
Mass., says, "Fully one-half the patients who have 
come to our asylum for treatment are the victims of 
tobacco." 

The question of the use of tobacco rests chiefly 
on its effects upon the body, the mind, and the moral 
nature. These effects have been determined by 
medical and scientific men, through experiment and 
observation, with many facts to corroborate them. 
If tobacco were useful or necessary to health we 



HOW TOBACCO AFFECTS THE MIND 41 
might make some allowance for the time and money 
used upon it and for the selfishness and filthiness 
which the habit engenders. But tobacco is one of the 
strongest vegetable poisons, rank, baneful, and de- 
structive. It does not assimilate in any way with 
the processes of nature, and supplies no recognized 
want of the system. It furnishes no blood, bone, or 
muscle, and when left to its legitimate action it com- 
pletely destroys the life principles. 

If the use of tobacco injures the body it must 
necessarily affect the mind. The brain and nerves 
suffer most from this practice. The brain is a deli- 
cate, sensitive organ, the instrument of all motion, 
thought, and feeling. To have it act normally it 
must be in perfect health, and the vitalizing blood 
that nourishes it must be pure and undefiled. But if 
the blood be saturated with the deadly nicotine, dis- 
tilled from pipe or cigar, or absorbed from the quid 
by the membrane of the mouth, and if the vital 
stream be diseased in its essential structure, which 
we know inevitably follows the use of tobacco, then 
we can well understand how the mental powers must 
be seriously affected by this subtle and virulent poi- 
son. 

Dr. James Copeland says: "Smoking tobacco 
weakens the nervous power, favors a dreamy, imag- 
inative, and imbecile state of mind, produces indo- 
lence and incapacity for manly or continuous exer- 
tion, and sinks its votary into a state of careless or 
maudlin inactivity, and a selfish enjoyment of his 
vice." 

That tobacco enervates the mind as well as the 



42 THE BROWN GOD 

body is proved by a comparison of smokers with non- 
smokers in institutions of learning. At the Poly- 
technic School in Paris the students were divided in- 
to two groups of smokers and non-smokers, and it 
was shown that the smokers were far inferior to the 
others in the various competitive examinations. At 
other schools and colleges in France a similar state 
of affairs was found. The non-smokers were health- 
ier, closer students, and consequently better schol- 
ars ; and as a result of these tests smoking was pro- 
hibited in all the public seminaries of France. Dr. 
Dio Lewis states that no tobacco-user within fifty 
years has graduated at the head of his class at Har- 
vard. 

Causes Insanity. 

Insanity is one of the horrible consequences of 
using tobacco, according to the statement of physi- 
cians and statistics of insane asylums. The New 
York World, some years ago, after an investigation, 
asserted that in nine cases out of eleven, where in- 
sanity had resulted from alcoholism, the primary 
cause was smoking. Not only does tobacco cause in- 
sanity by means of alcohol, but it is a direct cause in 
itself, and cases could be cited if space permitted. 
So true is the connection between the habit and this 
disease that it has been proved that "lunacy has kept 
pace in France with the increase of revenue of to- 
bacco. " Mr. Sims estimated some years ago that 
there were about 70,000 lunatics in America, and of 
this number more than 15,000 — or one in five — were 
made insane by tobacco. 

The Dublin University Magazine says: "The 



HOW TOBACCO AFFECTS THE MIND 43 
mental power of many a boy is certainly weakened 
by tobacco-smoking. The brain under its influence 
can do less work, and the dreary feeling which is 
produced tends directly to idleness. For all reasons 
it is desirable that our rising generation should be 
abstainers from tobacco.' ' 

The Scalpel, in speaking of the decay of the 
senses caused by the use of tobacco, says: "If there 
is a vice more prostrating to the body and mind, 
more crucifying to all the sympathies of the spiritual 
nature of man, we have yet to be convinced of it." 

Weakens the Intellect. 

Professor Hitchcock says : ' ' Intoxicating drinks, 
opium, and tobacco exert a pernicious influence up- 
on the intellect. They tend directly to debilitate the 
organs ; and we cannot take a more effectual course 
to cloud the understanding, weaken the memory, un- 
fix the attention, and confuse all the mental opera- 
tions than by thus entailing on ourselves the whole 
hateful train of nervous maladies. These can bow 
down to the earth an intellect of giant strength, and 
make it grind in bondage like Samson shorn of his 
locks and deprive him of his vision. The use of to- 
bacco may seem to soothe the feelings and quicken 
the operations of the mind; but to what purpose is 
it that the machine is furiously running and buzzing 
after the balance-wheel is taken off?" 

Surgeon McDonald says: "I may mention a cu- 
rious fact not generally known, but which requires 
to be tried only to be proved — viz., that no smoker 
can think steadily or continuously on any subject 



44 THE BROWN GOD 

while smoking. He cannot follow out a train of 

ideas; to do so he must lay aside his pipe." 

Dr. Alcott says: "No class of men, as a class, 
think more tardily than old tobacco-mongers, espe- 
cially chewers. One may well be astonished at the 
slowness of their intellectual movements — as if some 
mighty load were upon them pressing them down." 

That great thinker and observer, Lord Bacon, 
said : ' ' To smoke is a secret delight, serving to steal 
away men's brains." 

An English surgeon says that smokers and 
chewers, as a rule, are lacking in the fortitude nec- 
essary to undergo surgical operations. 

The opposition of educators to the habit is al- 
ways based upon its deadening effects on the mind. 
No one doubts that the cigarette habit deadens the 
mental faculties. Dr. Hammond of New York says 
that under the influence of tobacco the action of the 
brain is impaired. The ability to think, and in fact 
all mental concentration, is weakened. 

The use of tobacco at Annapolis and "West Point 
was prohibited because of its injurious effect upon 
the students. A few years ago the governor of 
Mississippi prohibited the use of tobacco at the State 
University, holding it to be a waste of the people's 
money to attempt to educate men that use it. In 
Yale College students are divided into three grades 
according to scholarship. In the first grade, twenty- 
five per cent use the weed ; in the second, forty-one 
per cent ; in the third, eighty-two per cent. The his- 
tory of American colleges for fifty years shows that 
no user of the weed has taken first honors. 



HOW TOBACCO AFFECTS THE MIND 45 
The united testimony of all physicians is that 
tobacco depresses the nervous system. And if it is 
so destructive to the body, how much more so to the 
mind. An eminent physician, who was the superin- 
tendent of the insane asylum at Northampton, Mass., 
says: '"I<\illy one-half of the patients we get in our 
asylum have lost their intellect through the use of 
tobacco.' ' If tobacco is such a bad thing because it 
injures the body, what a worse thing it is because it 
injures the mind. 



CHAPTER IV. 
THE DEADLY CIGARETTE 

"A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to 
her that bare him." Prov. 17:25. 

'TVEE WORST form in which Tobacco is used is in 
-*■ the deadly cigarette. The cigarette is not only- 
more poisonous than the cigar or ordinary smoking 
or chewing tobacco, but its more general use by the 
rising generation of boys, and even girls, whose 
bodies and minds are in process of development and 
less able to resist the destructive action of the poison, 
renders the cigarette the most damaging form in 
which tobacco is used. 

More Poisonous Than Other Forms. 

The cigarette is more poisonous than other 
forms of tobacco, principally because of the added 
poison in the wrapper, but also because of the flavor- 
ings used and the manner of the smoking. Prof. 
Tuflin, a competent scientist and chemist says, "All 
cigarettes contain five distinct poisons. Three of 
these are the most deadly oils, one in the paper wrap- 
per, one in the nicotine and the third in the flavoring. 
The other poisons are saltpeter and opium.'* 

Henry Ford, the well-known automobile manu- 
facturer, in his booklet, "The Case Against the Lit- 



THE DEADLY CIGARETTE 47 

tie White Slaver." published a letter he received 
from Thomas A. Edison, the noted scientist and elec- 
trical genius, in which Mr. Edison says: "The in- 
jurious agent in cigarettes comes principally from 
the burning paper wrapper. The substance there- 
by formed is called 'acrolin.' It has a violent ac- 
tion on the nerve centers, producing degeneration 
of the cells of the brain, which is quite rapid among 
boys. Unlike most narcotics this degeneration is 
permanent and uncontrolable. I employ no person 
who smokes cigarettes. " 

Another reason why the cigarette is more injur- 
ious than other forms in which tobacco is used, is be- 
cause in smoking a cigarette, the poison is not inter- 
cepted, as in the cigar and pipe, but the poison is 
taken directly into the mouth and lungs. "When the 
smoke is drawn through a long, closely packed cigar, 
much of the poison is filtered out and absorbed be- 
fore it reaches the mouth. In pipes, much of the 
posion is left in the bottom of the bowl of the pipe or 
in the stem and never reaches the mouth. A cigar- 
ette is loosely packed, is short, is smoked up close to 
the mouth and nearly all the poison gets into the 
system, while much of the poison of cigars is thrown 
away in the stubs. 

This is one reason why the cigarette leaves yel- 
low or brown stains from the substance otherwise 
left in cigar stubs and pipe bowls and stems, though, 
as has been shown, the cigarette has additional poi- 
sons. 

The cigarette smoker draws the smoke directly 
into his mouth and lungs. It is heavily laden with a 



48 THE BROWN GOD 

deadly mixture of all the poisons contained in the 
cigarette, and a brown coating of it is deposited up- 
on the sensitive mucous lining of the mouth, throat, 
nasal passages and the lungs, from which it is ab- 
sorbed into the blood and carried to every part of the 
body. In time, the system gets so full of this poi- 
son that it discolors the skin of the whole body. 

The main reason why the cigarette obtains such 
a fatal power over the young, to enslave them, is be- 
cause of the opium in them. They seem to soothe 
and quiet the nerves, when in fact they are paraylz- 
ing the forces of life, and each application of the 
supposed remedy calls for more, and larger and more 
frequent doses. 

A southern tobacconist stated to a New York 
Tribune representative that the extent to which 
drugs are used in cigarettes is appalling, and that 
"Havana flavoring" is sold by the thousand barrels, 
prepared from the tonka bean which contains a 
deadly poison. 

Cigarettes, in some cases, are made from filthy 
cigar stubs gathered from the streets. There are in 
New York City, many "cigar-butt grubbers'' as they 
are termed — that is, boys and girls who scour the 
streets gathering cigar stubs which are dried and 
then sold to be used in making cigarettes. These 
cigar stubs, as we have seen, are not only filthy, but 
are laden with an extra amount of poison filtered 
out of the smoke produced in the burning of the 
larger part of the cigar. 

Their Effect on the Young. 

The cigarette has all the destructive affects on 



THE DEADLY CIGARETTE 49 

body and mind of tobacco as detailed in previous 
chapters of this book ; and more, because of its more 
poisonous nature and form. But they are particu- 
larly detrimental to the young, because the young 
are less able to resist its poisonous affect and because 
they hinder the mental and physical development of 
the child. A study of both alcoholic liquors and to- 
bacco in its various forms, has led us to believe that 
the cigarette is the worst enemy of them all to man- 
kind, because its destructive affects are applied to 
such a large per cent of our boys while in tender age 
and in the process of mental and physical develop- 
ment. 

It is a known fact that a large per cent of the 
boys in the primary grades of our public schools 
learn to use tobacco and cigarettes. We believe that 
in town and city schools an investigation would show 
that from 75 to 90 per cent of the boys learn to use 
tobacco by the time they are ready for the high 
school. Conditions are often such that a boy that 
refuses to use tobacco is ridiculed and rejected from 
the society of the others. Many boys learn and use 
it while in company with others, who would stoutly 
deny it if questioned about it. 

But we have been unable to find either statis- 
tics or any authorative statements as to the actual 
per cent of boys that learn during school age. The 
government compiles no statistics along this line, 
and very little attention is paid to the prevention 
of disease-producing and destructive habits among 
children. It has been said that this government 
pays more attention to the health of its hogs than it 



50 THE BROWN GOD 

does to the health of its children. Millions of dollars 
are spent by the government investigating diseases 
of animals and Uncle Sam will even send experts to 
give advice on their care, but children are left to 
form their own habits however destructive to the 
health of body and mind they may be. 

The tobacco and cigarette habits, especially a- 
mong children, lead not only to diseased conditions 
of many parts of the body, but to other habits even 
more violent. 

Lead to Drink, Morphine and Opium. 

Cigarettes lead to drinking and thence to mor- 
phine" and opium. Dr. Charles B. Town, of New 
York, in an article in the Century Magazine says: 
"For years I have been dealing with alcoholism and 
morphinism, have gone into their every phase and 
aspect, have kept careful and minute details of be- 
tween six and Seven thousand cases, and I have nev- 
er seen a case, except occasionally with women, 
which did not have a history of excessive tobacco. 
A boy always starts smoking before he starts drink- 
ing. If he is disposed to drink, that disposition will 
be increased by smoking, because the action of to- 
bacco makes it normal for him to feel the need of 
stimulation. He is likely to go to alcohol to soothe 
the muscular unrest, to blunt the irritation he has 
received from tobacco. From alcohol he goes to 
morphine for the same reason. The nervous condi- 
tion due to excessive drinking is allayed by mor- 
phine, just as the nervous condition due to excessive 
smoking is allayed by alcohol. Morphine is the 
legitimate consequence of alcohol, and alcohol is the 



THE DEADLY CIGARETTE 51 

legitimate consequence of tobacco. Cigarettes, 
drink, opium, is the logical and regular series." 



Affects on School Boys. 

Some interesting observations of the effect of 
cigarette smoking upon boys in school were present- 
ed by P. L. Lord in the School Journal. A publie 
school of about 500 pupils was taken as an example, 
and in this school it was found that the boys were 
very much inferior to the girls in every way. It was 
also found that a large majority of the boys wer* 
habitual cigarette smokers. 

An investigation was ordered to ascertain ex- 
actly how far the smoking was to blame for the 
boys' inefficiency and low moral condition. The in- 
vestigation extended over several months of close 
observation of twenty boys who it was known did 
not use tobacco in any form and twenty boys know* 
to be " cigarette fiends.' ' 

The non-smokers were drawn by lot. The re- 
port represents the observation of ten teachers. The 
pupils investigated were from the same rooms in the 
same schools. No guess work was allowed. Time 
was taken to get at the facts of the case on the twen- 
ty questions of inquiry; hence the value of the re- 
port. 

The ages of the boys were from 10 to 17. The 
average age was a little over 14. Of the twenty 
smokers twelve had smoked more than a year and 
some of them several years. All twenty boys used 
cigarettes, while some of them also used pipes and 
cigars occasionally. 



52 THE BROWN GOD 

The following table shows the line of investiga- 
tion and also the result : 

Smokers Non-Smokers 

No. Pet. No. Pet. 

1. Nervous 14 70 1 5 

2. Impaired hearing 13 65 1 5 

3. Poor memory 12 60 1 5 

4. Bad manners 16 80 2 10 

5. Low deportment 18 90 1 5 

6. Poor physical condition 12 60 2 10 

7. Bad moral condition ... 14 70 

8. Bad mental condition . . 18 90 1 5 

9. Street loafers 16 80 

10. Out nights 15 75 

11. Careless in dress 12 60 4 20 

12. Not neat and clean 12 60 15 

13. Truants .10 50 

14. Low rank in studies ... 18 90 3 15 

15. Failed of promotion .. *79 .. *2 

16. Older than average 19 95 2 10 

17. Untruthful 9 45 

18. Slow thinkers 19 95 3 15 

19. Poor workers or not 

able to work continuously 17 85 15 

20. Known to attend church 

or Sunday School... 15 9 45 

*Times. 

The following personal peculiarities were notic- 
ed in the smokers : 

Twelve of the cases had poor memories and ten 
of the twelve were reported as very poor, only four 
had fair memories and not one of the twenty boys 



THE DEADLY CIGARETTE 53 

had a good memory. Eighteen stood low in deport- 
ment, only one was good and none was excellent. 
Seven of them were very low, being constantly vile 
in their actions. 

Rev. Ozora S. Davis, D. D., president of Chicago 
Theological Seminary, in an article in the Scientific 
Temperance Journal says : * ' The power of the cigar- 
ette habit is greater than we would be inclined to 
think. Boys in school who are in the clutch of it 
become its slaves. They cannot put their minds on 
their work. They are incapable of remaining long 
without the stimulant of another cigarette. Their 
whole physical and moral condition is involved. 
This is the universal testimony of teachers, and it is 
something that is known to the writer from exper- 
ience as a high school principal." 

Henry Ward Beecher has well said: " Money is 
ill spent trying to educate a boy that smokes cigar- 
ettes." 

More Girls Than Boys Graduate. 

It is often observed that more girls than boys 
graduate from our public schools, and statistics 
show that to be a fact. 

In the state of Indiana, for the school year of 
1913-1914, there were 14,087 girls graduated from 
the common schools and only 12,465 boys, or 1,622 
less boys graduated than girls. 

From the Commissioned high schools of the 
state, 4,689 girls graduated and 3,753 boys. That is 
936 less boys graduated than girls. 

Why is that ? Are not our boys as strong, both 
physically and mentally as our girls, when the fond 



54 THE BROWN GOD 

parents, in great hopes for their usefulness and suc- 
cess in life, start them on their way to their first day 
of school? 

Both science and common experience teach us 
that the boys are naturally stronger, both mentally 
and physically, than the girls, and more boys ought 
to graduate than girls, and would were it not for 
some cause that interferes with the natural course. 

But it is not true that the whole cause is tobac- 
co. There are other things that contribute to that 
condition. One is that girls are not so often taken 
out of school to work in the factory and on the farm, 
and thus more girls than boys usually attend our 
schools. 

But in the face of all the facts published in thi* 
booklet, who will deny the fact that tobacco and 
cigarette are the principal cause for this condition. 
From the figures published on page 52 of this book- 
let, one would expect a still less proportion of boys 
to find their way through to graduation, since but 
few girls are affected by it. 



EXPERIMENTS OF A BOCTOS 
In his popular lecture on cigarettes Dr. Paulson 
tells how when a student at Bellevue Hospital Med- 
ical School he performed an experiment that im- 
pressed upon his mind the fact that nicotine is a 
deadly poison. 

A large healthy cat that was making night hid- 
eous was doomed to death. The doctor was the ex- 
ecutioner. He says : 

"I soaked enough tobacco to make an ordinary 



THE DEADLY CIGARETTE 55 

cigarette in water. Then I injected under the cat's 
skin a hypodermic syringe full of this tobacco juice. 
In a few minutes the cat began to quiver, then to 
tremble, then it had cramps and in less than twenty- 
minutes it died in violent convulsions. The poison 
destroyed the nine lives a cat is popularly supposed 
to possess. 

"I take no pride in relating this experiment, for 
I knew a shorter as well as a more merciful way of 
ending that cat's life; but what distresses me now is 
the fact that thousands of boys are repeating that 
experiment upon themselves with as certain thotf gh 
less immediate results and only a few people seem to 
be concerned over what is taking place right before 
their eyes. 

An Insane Boy. 

"Years ago God used' a never-to-be-forgotten in- 
cident to burn into my soul the enormity of the cig- 
arette evil. An elderly woman with a faded red 
shawl thrown over her stooping shoulders came into 
my office and asked if I could see her boy. Two 
strong men then brought before me a wild-eyed, 
thoroughly insane youth of seventeen years. The 
mother wanted to know if he could recover. After 
investigating his case I was compelled to tell her 
that the outlook was hopeless and that she might as 
well send him to the insane asylum. She broke down 
and sobbed as though her heart would break. I ask- 
ed her what had brought this terrible condition upon 
her son and she said, '0, it was cigarettes! He 
smoked more and more until he used fifty a day and 
then his mind gave way.' That day I became thor- 



56 THE BROWN GOD 

oughly enlisted in the anti-cigarette war. 

"Most all boys know some poor crippled boy 
whose leg was cut off in a street car accident, but if 
the boy has brains and character he may yet fill a 
position of honor and usefulness in the world, but 
the boy who begins to smoke cigarettes early can 
never be of any great use in the world, The effort 
to put knowledge into his brain is about as hopeless 
a task as to fill a basket with water ! The boy who 
smokes cigarettes is an object of pity. 

"If a boy would deliberately rub sand into his 
eyes people would think him crazy, but it is no more 
foolish to rub sand in one's eyes than to rub poison 
into one 's brain. 

"Some ask, 'Is it worse for a child to smoke a 
cigarette than for a man to smoke a cigar? It is, for 
three reasons. First, a man may safely tolerate a 
quarter of a grain of morphine while we dare not 
give a child more than a sixteenth of a grain. The 
child's nervous system is peculiarly susceptible to 
the influence of such narcotic drugs as nicotine and 
morphine and hence an introduction to either of 
them early in life means almost certain nervous or 
mental disaster later in life. Second, the loosely 
packed cigarette does not permit the nicotine to con- 
dense to the same extent as when it is drawn through 
a pipe or a cigar, hence the smoker gets the full ben- 
efit of this virulent poison. Third, the oxidation of 
the cigarette paper produces a deadly poison that is 
only second in its effects to that of nicotine itself. ' ' 
Freeing the Slave. 

"I am often asked how a cigarette slave can be 



THE DEADLY CIGARETTE 57 

freed from the awful bondage. I have seen this ac- 
complished by a very simple method when there is 
an earnest determination with God's help to find re- 
lief. The very best treatment that can be given is 
an exclusive fruit diet for three or four days, eating 
all the fruit one wishes three or four times a day and 
drinking abundance of water. This with a few sweat 
baths does the work in many cases. 

"I tell the smoker that I know from personal 
experience that God is on the side of the fellow who 
is trying to do right and that he may look to God 
for special help. Victims of the vice are often as- 
tonished with the ease with which they slip out from 
under this habit. 

"I have never seen a sensible man teach his boy 
to smoke. This is the best argument that I know a- 
gainst tobacco using. If a man really believed to- 
bacco was good for him he would desire his wife, sis- 
ter, mother and child to share the blessing with him. 

' 'Tobacco gives a certain amount of unearned 
felicity, just as alcohol or as morphine does, but it 
charges a terrific toll in the way of high blood pres- 
sure, injury to the nervous system and digestive or- 
gans, and more or less impairment of the whole man. 
Every man who is a tobacco user sacrifices some of 
the best that is in him, spiritually, mentally, and 
physically by worshipping at this altar. The intol- 
erable craving for the after dinner cigar is largely 
produced by the juicy beefsteak, highly seasoned 
food, and tea and coffee that compose the meal. 
Hence he who desires to be delivered from the to- 
bacco habit should religiously avoid for a time at 



58 THE BROWN GOD 

least such articles of food as produce a craving for 

tobacco. 



THE EXPERIENCE OF A JUDGE 
Hon. Benjamin B. Lindsey, Judge of the Juve- 
nile Court of Denver, Colo., says : 

"Our lives depend a great deal upon our habits. 
Habits make or unmake a man. It all depends on 
the kind of habits they are. Habits are good or evil. 
They are generally formed in boyhood, and the kind 
of men we are to have in the future depends upon 
the kind of boys we have now. The boy who starts 
with bad habits is almost sure to be a worthless man, 
if not actually a criminal. 

"Boyhood is the most important part of life. It 
is the period when the foundation of a noble charac- 
ter is successfully laid. A man is a great deal like a 
magnificent building. The great building can never 
be lasting, strong, and beautiful unless -it rests upon 
a firm foundation. At the beginning the founda- 
tion is laid. You can not build a fine house and lay 
the foundation afterward. The beginning of a man 
is a boy, and so the foundation of a man is a boy. 
"We have a right to expect every boy to grow up to 
be a good man and useful citizen. So the boy must 
be strong, as the foundation of the building is firm 
and lasting. He must not be a coward. He can not 
be brave or strong if he weakens himself morally and 
physically. He must not be a bully on the one hand 
or a "sissy boy" on the other. He must be clean, 
wholesome, decent, manful, cheerful; loyal to home, 
■school, and chums; not "goody," but just good. 



THE DEADLY CIGARETTE 59 

"One of the very worst habits in boyhood is the 
cigarette habit. This has long been recognized by 
all the judges of the courts who deal with young 
criminals, and especially by judges of police courts, 
before whom pass thousands of men every year who 
are addicted to intemperate habits. These judges 
know that in nearly every case the drunken sots who 
appear before them, a disgrace to their parents, 
themselves and the state, began as boys smoking cig- 
arettes. One bad habit led to another. The nicotine 
and poison in the cigarette created an appetite for 
alcoholic drink. The cigarette habit not only had a 
grip upon them in boyhood, but it invited all the 
other demons of habit to come in and add to the deg- 
radation that the cigarette began. 

"I only recently had a little boy in court whose 
parents and friends were shocked when it was dis- 
covered that he had stolen money from the cash 
drawer of his employer, and was caught by a detec- 
tive set to watch for the thief. No one believed that 
this boy would steal, since he had a good home and 
had borne a good reputation, but I found on investi- 
gation that the boy had been tempted to steal in or- 
der to get money to buy cigarettes. Now the trouble 
with that boy was that he was weak, he could not re- 
sist temptation. "Why? Because he had contracted 
this baneful habit that weakened his character so 
that he was unable to resist evil when it attacked 
him, as it will certainly attack all boys, and only 
those who are strong will successfully resist it. 

"Nearly all the leading business men of the 
country have forbidden the employment of boys and 



60 THE BROWN GOD 

young men who smoke cigarettes. This is because 
they know that the victims of cigarettes cannot be 
trusted. 

"The laws of nearly every state in the Union 
forbid the sale of tobacco to boys, and the laws of 
Colorado even forbid people to give boys tobacco, so 
that boys who use cigarettes are not only disobedient 
to their parents, but they are disobedient to the laws 
of their state. Patriotism is, after all, duty to one ? s 
school, and one's city. And no boy does his duty 
either to himself, his home, his school, his flag 
or his country, who will indulge in the vile habit of 
smoking cigarettes. 



Practiced Among Girls as Well as Boys. 

Not only is this dangerous practice indulged in 
by boys, but girls and women have acquired a liking 
for the cigarette, and many of them smoke in secret. 
A canvas of the public schools of Washington City 
disclosed the fact that while fifty per cent of the 
boys are habitual users of cigarettes, there were 
hundreds of girls in the lower as well *s in the higher 
grades who were also addicted to their use. In oth- 
er cities a similar state of affairs was discovered. Let 
the readers of this article make an investigation in 
their own communities and they will be surprised at 
the wide-spread prevalence of this vice. 
They Commit Suicide. 

During the twenty years that the publisher of 
this book has been in the printing business, he has 
had, at different times, two men in his employ who 
used cigarettes. They were both younger than he. 



THE DEADLY CIGARETTE 61 

They are both dead. They both committed suicide 
—luckily after they had left his employ. They be- 
came so despondent and so sick of such a life as they 
were living that they murdered themselves. This is 
the end to which many cigarette smokers come, and 
no one knows how many, because in such cases the 
real cause is kept from public knowledge. 
Degenerating as a Nation. 

In the Spanish-Amercan-Filipino War it was 
demonstrated that we are degenerating as a nation; 
hundreds of our boys failed to pass the examination, 
because of the cigarette habit. In the 60 's only 13 
out of 100 soldiers were rejected who made applica- 
tion. In the Spanish-American-Filipino "War, 40 out 
of every 100 were rejected who applied, and 36 out 
of every 40 because of the cigarette. The best and 
strongest young men physically are killed in war — 
the flower of the nation — and the cigarette smokers 
stay at home to propagate the race! Seven-tenths 
of those who become users of these deadly coffin- 
nails fall victims to tuberculosis or consumption. 

Thousands of young men, who might have be- 
come useful citizens, are ruined every year from hav- 
ing contracted the habit of smoking cigarettee. 
The Cigarette Eye. 

All our oculists are of one opinion, that the 
greatest enemy to the eyes of young men is the cig- 
arette. There exists a disease among smokers which 
is dangerous, and which our best authorities were 
for a time at a loss to understand. After careful in- 
vestigation this peculiar malady has been traced to 
the paper-covered cigarettes. It is now known as 



62 THE BEOWN GOD 

il cigarette eye," and requires for its cure a very 
long and careful treatment. Its symptoms are dim- 
ness and a film-like gathering over the eye, which 
appears and disappears at intervals. Not all cigar- 
ette smokers will necessarily have this trouble, but 
doubtless the eyes of all of them will be more or less 
affected. 



A Summary. 

The cigarette is the boy's worst enemy and 
must be exterminated, and the boy given a chance. 

The cigarette habit is more insidiously danger- 
ous than any other habit because of the narcotic in- 
fluence, and because of the methods of smoking. 

Cigarette smoking benumbs and weakens the 
nerve that controls the heart, and makes it beat ir- 
regularly. Cigarette smoking weakens the stomach, 
and digestive juices are poisoned. 

The inhaling of the smoke irritates the delicate 
membrane of the mouth, throat, lungs and nose. 

Cigarette smoking exercises a definite affect up- 
on the spinal cord, interferes with oxidation of the 
blood, and with nutrition, and also interferes with 
the functions of the eye, and makes the boy nervous. 
The cigarette will master the will powers, and dwarf 
and enfeeble the brain. It makes cowards and 
sneaks of boys, interferes with a successful prosecu- 
tion of study, makes a boy dishonest, untruthful, im- 
pure and criminal in his life. 

The cigarette will make a boy incapable of hold- 
ing any responsible position, and leads him into the 
society of the indolent and vicious. It goes hand in 



THE DEADLY CIGARETTE 63 

hand with impure literature, liquor, morphine and 
bad habits. 

It holds thousands of boys in its death grip. It 
undermines their morals. 

It is the curse of the boy 's body, mind and soul, 
the bane of society, and the enemy of all true man- 
kind. 

Then stamp the cigarette out of existence, and 
give the boy a chance. 



AS GIRLS NURSE A DOLL 

to Imitate Women, 

BOYS SMOKE AND CHEW 

to Imitate Men. 



What is the Moral? 



CHAPTER V. 
THE USE OF TOBACCO A SIN 

"Whatsoever is not of faith is sin.'* Bom. 14:23. 

THE reader has no doubt been convinced, by 
reading the previous chapters of this book, or 
otherwise; that tobacco, in all its forms, is destruc- 
tive to the physical and mental well-being of the us- 
er as well as a tremendous economic waste and a fil- 
thy habit. If he has been thoughtful, he has, before 
this, come to the conclusion that its evil affects make 
its use not only a positive sin in which no Christian 
should indulge, but its tendency to lead to drink and 
all kinds of crime, and its blasting affect on a large 
part of the rising generation of boys, is such that e- 
ven good citizenship demands that we abstain from 
its use, and from setting a bad example before the 
rising generation, and that we use our influence a- 
gainst this evil. 

*But many excuse themselves by the claim that 
the Bible nowhere forbids the use of tobacco. Since 
the Bible was written Satan and foolish men have 
devised many evils, which of course are not directly 
mentioned in the Scriptures. Nevertheless, that per- 

*The matter contained in this ehapter was recently pub- 
lished in tract form by The Gospel Trumpet Co., Anderson, 
Xnd., and is used by their permission. 



THE USE OF TOBACCO A SIN 65 

feet and holy law lays down principles of righteous- 
ness which stand over against everything that is vile 
and sinful, whether it was practised in ancient Sod- 
om or invented in modern Sodom and Egypt. 

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatso- 
ever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatso- 
ever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; 
if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on 
these things. Those things, which ye have learned, and re- 
ceived, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace 
shall be with you. Phil. 4:8, 9. 

Here the Word of God calls our attention to gen- 
eral principles of virtue and purity, as if to say: 
"The light of my word and Spirit will enable you to 
judge of your own selves what things are pure and 
lovely, and what are sinful and unholy, without a di- 
rect mention of everything on earth that is good, 
and everything that is evil." Therefore through our 
knowledge of God and his law of holiness we may 
say that the use of tobacco, in any of its forms, is a 
sin in the sight of God. 

We will now weight the habit by principles 
clearly laid down in the law of the Lord ; for to this 
book we appeal as the standard that must decide 
what is sin and what is not. Some men whose bodies 
are steeped and consciences smoked in tobacco affirm 
that they feel no condemnation in its use. What 
then! shall we conclude that it is no sin to them? 
God forbid; for that would be making the blinded 
and seared conscience of man the standard of sin, 
and not the Word of God. Any practice that con- 
flicts with the divine law is sin. If some are too blind 
to know it, the scales must fall from their eyes when 
God's ministers with one accord warn them of the 



66 THE BROWN GOD 

sin, without palliation or compromise. The use of 
tobacco, either chewing, smoking, or dipping snuff, 
is a sin in the sight of God. 

Tobacco Brings the User Under Bondage. 
Entire sanctification takes out of the heart, soul, 
and spirit everything that God did not create in us. 
and brings those appetites and desires of his own 
creation into their lawful and temperate exercise. 
Hence says Paul, "I keep under my body/' Not the 
body of sin, for that is destroyed, but the physical 
body. That is true Christian life. Christ and the 
soul take the preeminence over the body, the spirit- 
ual over the material. Moral quality does not inhere 
in matter ; therefore human flesh can neither sin nor 
do acts of righteousness. It is, however, an instru- 
ment through which the mind and the spirit either 
sin or do good. Hence the injunction : 

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye 
should obey it in the lusts thereof. Neither yield ye your 
members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but 
yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the 
dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness un- 
to God. Bom. 6:12, 13. 

If, therefore, our body is wholly devoted to acts 
of righteousness, it is because the spiritual and men- 
tal elements that dwell within are all holy, and have 
perfect control of the members of the body as their 
instruments of righteousness; but if the body is to 
any degree prostituted to the works of sin, that 
proves there are inward elements of sin which use 
the members of the body as its instruments of un- 
righteousness. Holiness uses its temple to serve 
God, but sin uses the body in acts of unrighteousness. 

Everv tobacco-user is under a tyrant from whose 



THE USE OP TOBACCO A SIN 67 

demands there is no appeal, save to Jesus Christ. 
Now, the Word of God positively asserts that no man 
can serve two masters. Therefore the servants of 
King Tobacco can not serve the Lord Jesus Christ. 

No person can be fully saved in Jesus and at the 
same time be enslaved to any lust of the flesh. "If 
the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be 
free indeed. " John 8:36. If any peculiar craving 
ing in the body has the mastery over you, you do not 
keep under your body, but the body through the 
raging of the appetite has you in bondage. Thus 
every tobacco-user is in slavery. He is not free. No 
amount of healthful food will satisfy the burning 
lust. It is not so with natural hunger for food. If 
one article is not attainable, another will supply the 
need and satisfy the hunger. But the narcotic ty- 
rant makes his demands independently of all food; 
yea, he clamors the most right after meals. And the 
slave must yield even though he is placed amid sur- 
roundings that compel him to indulge his idol with 
shame. 

Suppose a person is converted to God and then 

falls under this hard old master, Tobacco ; here is the 

result : "For of whom a man is overcome, of the same 

is he brought in bondage/' whether the power is of 

man or of some lust. And the next verses say : 

For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, 
they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wan- 
tonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live 
in error. While they promise them liberty, they themselves 
are the servants of corruption; for of whom a man is over- 
come, of the same is he brought in bondage. For if, after 
they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the 
knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are a- 
gain entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is 



68 THE BBOWN GOD 

worse with them than the beginning. For it had "been bet- 
ter for them not to have known the way of righteousness,, 
than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy com- 
mandment delivered unto them. But it is happened unto 
them according to the true proverb: The dog is turned to hi» 
own vomit again; and the sow that was washed, to her wal- 
lowing in the mire. II Pet. 2:18-22. 

Bead that over, you that have gone from gract 
to tobacco; honestly confess that Brother Feter has 
here drawn your picture ; then forsake the hard mas- 
ter and come back to Christ, He will set you free. 
And to every child of Christ not in the grasp of the 
dreadful monster we would say, " Stand fast there- 
fore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us 
free, "and be not entangled again with the yoke of 
bondage." Gal. 5:1. 

Condemned by Scripture Because Filthy. 

The using of tobacco is condemned by the Scrip- 
tures as a sin because it is a filthy practice. 

Scarcely a user of the weed is so imbued with it« 
stupefying poison that he will not admit the use of 
tobacco is a filthy habit. But were they all to deny 
it, it would be none the less true, as every clean per- 
son knows. Oh, the awful repugnance! "What a 
shameful offense clean men and women must suffer 
through the selfish indulgence of those who choose 
K to follow the obnoxious practice! The users are 
scarcely aware of the fact that their breath and 
clothes are offensive. They leave their sickening 
puddles on the floors of meeting-houses, of railroad 
cars, etc., where others are forced to sit in holy hor- 
ror. They chase us out of depots to stand in the 
cold. They drive us off the sidewalks or force us to 
inhale their nauseous smoke. They oblige us to run 



THE USE OF TOBACCO A SIN 69 

the risk of dropping down, overcome by the deadly 
poison of their smoke that often densely fills stores, 
groceries, hotels, and post-offices. Oh! who can 
paint the outrage that the tobacco lust inflicts upon 
the innocent part of society? The use of tobacco, 
therefore, is not only a filthy practice in the sight of 
God,but, as such, a violation of the command, "Be 
courteous.' ' I Pet. 3:8. 

Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let u» 
cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, 
perfecting holiness in the fear of God. II Cor. 7:1. 

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, 
let it not be once named among you, as beeometh saints; 
neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are 
not convenient; but rather giving of thanks. For this ye 
know, that no whoremonger nor unclean person, nor covet- 
ous man, who is an idolator, hath any inheritance in the 
kingdom of Christ and of God. Eph. 5:3-5. 

Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of 
naughtiness, and receive with meekness the ungrafted word, 
which is able to save your souls. But be ye doers of the 
word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. Jas„ 
1:21, 22. 

In the defiling use of tobacco, men and women 
live in constant disregard of the above scriptures; 
hence, judged by them, they are sinners. For if the 
use of tobacco is not a filthiness of the flesh, we 
should like to know what can be. 

Woe to her that is filthy. Zech. 3:1. 

If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God de- 
stroy. I Cor. 3:17. 

He which is filthy let him be filthy still. 

"When? 

Behold, I come quickly, and my reward is with me, t© 
give every man according as his work shaH be. Rev. 22:11,12.. 

These texts are solemn warnings of the dreadful 

doom that will come upon all who live after filthy 



70 THE BROWN GOD 

lusts — especially such persons as have better light. 
Living After the Flesh. 
The members of the physical body are, as we 
have seen, the instruments through which a deprav- 
ed nature works out in the commission of, sin, caus- 
ing life to be on a low, animal plane, instead of on a 
spiritual. In the following quotations, to live " after 
the flesh/ ' "in the flesh, " etc., denote to live in the 
more or less free gratification of the lusts of the 
body, or to live the old life. Christians do not live 
after the flesh. 

That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in 
ws, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For 
they that are after the flesh, do mind the things of the flesh; 
but they that are after the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. 
Bom. 8:4, 5. 

Men that do live after the flesh can not please 
®od. 

So then they that are in the flesh can not please God. 
Bom. 8:8. 

Among whom also we all had our conversation in time 
past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the 
flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of 
wrath, even as others. Eph. 2:3. 

The practice of uncleanness is the work of the 
flesh. 

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are 
these: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, etc. 
Gal. 5:19. 

Since tobacco-using is universally acknowledg- 
ed to be a filthy habit, and since, as we have just 
seen, filthiness is one of the works of the flesh, it fol- 
lows that those who indulge in the unclean lust "live 
after the flesh.' 9 And now we will prove that spir- 
itual death, as well as physical destruction, is in 
their practice. 



THE USE OP TOBACCO A SIN 71 

For if ye live after the flesh ye shall die; but if ye 
through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall 
live. Eom. 8:13. 

Then, when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin; 
and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. Jas. 1:15. 

So tobacco-users are alive to the flesh, and dead 
to God — especially, we may add, when the pure gos- 
pel has been preached and they "have no cloak for 
their sin." 

Again, God postively forbids men living after 
the flesh. 

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye 
should obey it in the lusts thereof. Rom. 6:12; 13:14. 

This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not ful- 
fil the lust of the flesh; for the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, 
and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the 
one to the other; so that ye* can not do the things that ye 
would. Gal. 5:16, 17. 

Walking in the Spirit and fulfilling the lusts of 
the flesh do not go together ; hence they who do the 
latter do not the former. The desire for tobacco is 
a lust of the flesh, of the old man; and to gratify 
that lust is to live after the flesh ; and "if ye live af- 
ter the flesh, ye shall die." Oh, flee from dead works! 

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the 
world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father 
is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the 
flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of 
the Father, but is of the world. I John 2:15, 16. 

Look at the wicked, besotted world and see 

them revel in tobacco! Do they not love it? Do 

not the cigar, pipe, and quid go hand in hand with 

intoxicating drinks? Do not the stench of liquor 

and that of tobacco mingle together, and rise up like 

smoke from the bottomless pit? Did you ever see 

or hear of this notice on the walls of a saloon? "No 

smoking allowed here." No ; that, and in hell itself, 



72 THE BROWN GOD 

is the place for the smoke of sin and lust. May God 
pity the poor deceived soul who after hearing the 
real gospel of God imagines that he can breathe an 
acceptable prayer to God that is mingled with the 
stench of tobacco — except it be this one, "God, be 
merciful to me a sinner ; ' ' and then it will not rise as 
high as his breath unless accompanied with, "I here 
give up my tobacco and all sins forever.' ' 

"We have already shown that the fiithiness of 
tobacco is a work of the flesh, and in our last text it 
is affirmed that "the lust of the flesh is not of the 
Father, but of the world.' ' And "if any man love 
the world, the love of the Father is not in him." 
This is a close point, but it is God's word. 

For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath ap- 
peared unto all men, teaching us that denying ungodliness 
and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and 
godly, in this present world. Tit. 2:11, 12. 

These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their 
own lusts: and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, 
having men's persons in admiration because of advantage. 
Jude 16. 

And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; 
hating even the garment spotted by the flesh. Jude 23. 

Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, 
abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul. I 
Pet. 2:11. 

That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the 
flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. For the 
time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will 
of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, ex- 
cess of wine, revelings, banquetings, and abominable idola- 
tries. I Pet. 4:2, 3. 

No. man can live soberly, righteously, and godly, 

and at the same time indulge in worldly lusts. Every 

tobacco-user lives in direct opposition to the above 

exhortation of Peter, and hence is a sinner. What 



THE USE OF TOBACCO A SIN 73 

are the spots of the flesh on men's and women's gar- 
ments? Such as the trappings of pride, spots and 
scent of tobacco, or anything else that is the dicta- 
tion and work of the flesh, or depraved nature. So 
radical is the change wrought in conversion that the 
new man hates every remembrance of the lusts of 
the old man. But the tobacco-loving professor con- 
tinues to love and chew what the corrupt old man 
loves. 

The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of 
temptations, and to reserve the unjust * * to be punished* 
But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of un- 
cleanness. II Pet. 2: 9, 10. 

Oh, hear ye this, ye unclean tobacco-slaves! 
God threatens those who walk after the lust of un- 
cleanness with special punishment in the day of 
judgment. Some live after the flesh in the lust of 
the eye in worldly pride. Others walk after the 
flesh in greed for money, or ambition for honor. But 
here a class spoken of who "walk after the flesh in 
the lust of uncleanness ; ' ' that is, they indulge a lust 
that makes them unclean. And the tobacco-user ad- 
mits that his practice is a "filthy habit;" therefore 
he must also admit that he is included among those 
for whom God has reserved special punishment. Oh, 
flee to Christ ! 

Tobacco is not food; it only feeds the craving 
that it has created. The pleasure derived from the 
use of tobacco is like the sensation produced by 
scratching and rubbing the skin when it has the itch, 
"Were it not for the disease, no pleasure would result 
from the friction. Likewise, were it not for the dis- 
ease of the tobacco-appetite, the use of tobacco 
would sicken instead of give pleasure. 



74 THE BROWN GOD 

A Sin Against the Body. 

Tobacco, as is well known, is a deadly poison; 
and the constant use of poison nrast impair the phys- 
ical structure, sap the mind, and leave men without 
sufficient energy and stamina to seek and obtain 
salvation and to live a righteous life. The last as- 
sertion is borne out by a close observance of natural 
laws and of the effects of their violation. No person 
on earth under the stupefaction of tobacco is actual- 
ly well, or in a normal physical condition. The very 
appetite itself is a disease. 

"While I was conversing recently with some 
women who were clamoring for their tobacco, one 
whom God had given more than ordinary constitu- 
tional vigor remarked that she had dipped snuff ev- 
er since he was a child and that she was as well as 
anybody she knew. But having confessed that she 
was very wretched and could hardly live if without 
her snuff, she was shown that she was badly mistak- 
en about her supposed good health ; that her use of 
poison had so far destroyed her body that she could 
not live on wholesome food ; that her stomach was so 
impaired that, without a stimulant, it was unable to 
digest and assimiliate food to sustain nature. Hence 
the distress without the poison. So if you wish to 
see how destructive of health your tobacco-poison 
is, just stop using it for a short time and note your 
condition. 

The dreadful results of petting and humoring 
children are not seen as long as the practice is kept 
up; but when it is discontinued, the parents soon 
find that the silly course has entailed* an injury upon 



THE USE OF TOBACCO A SIN 75 

the children and a curse upon themselves. The 
squalling and the war in the family make the home 
almost unendurable. Just so you foolish tobacco, opi- 
um, and intemperate coffee and tea users never see 
how you have murdered your systems until you 
attempt to quit your tyrannical habits. Then, worse 
than spoiled children, you are so ill-natured, miser- 
able, and distracted that no one can live in peace 
where you are, for the simple reason that you are 
spoiled, badly spoiled. You are of all men most 
miserable. You have tampered with the old serpent 
and have been bitten, and now you are nearly a 
foaming madman. You can not live that way. You 
must do one of these two things: you must either 
come to Christ, the only physician that can extract 
the poison from your system, and be healed by his 
miraculous power, or return to the cursed habit that 
has spoiled you, and keep on in your self-destruc- 
tion until your burning lust is quenched in death 
and your defiled soul is forced into the presence of 
God to be punished for the "lust of uncleanness." 

See how the sin of tobacco-using robs youth of 
vigor, puts an old, haggard look on the face, and 
dwarfs the body and mind as well as defiles the con- 
science. Every time you take a chew, a smoke, or a 
dip of the destructive poison you sign a note that 
you will have to pay sooner or later in sickness, pain 
and death, just as sure as nature's laws are flexible. 

Besides being a direct curse upon its victim, to- 
bacco leads to drunkenness and other vices. 

Let us hear the tobacco-user's defense before 
the judgment-bar of God's Word. One steps for- 



76 THE BROWN GOD 

ward and says, "I use it to relieve the toothache.'* 
Well, the filthy stuff rots and destroys the teeth, and 
then the poisonous drug will stupefy the exposed 
nerves and lessen pain. Get rid of your decayed 
teeth and the stuff that destroyed them, and give 
your soul and body to Christ, and he will both save 
and heal you. 

Another cries out, "I use the weed to reduce 
flesh.' ' If your corpulency is a disease, Christ can 
heal it ; if natural, diet will do much for you. But 
do not defile the temple of God with tobacco, or God 
will destroy both soul and body in hell. 

Many raise the clamor, "Not that which goeth 
into the mouth defileth the man, but that which com- 
eth out," etc. In this language Christ had no ref- 
erence to tobacco, whiskey, and like evils. He sim- 
ply spoke against a superstitious, rigid tradition of 
the Jews. They were exceedingly careful to wash 
their hands before eating, as though the smallest 
atom of dirt in their food would defile their souls ; 
while, at the same time, their hearts were a sink of 
sin, out of which proceeded "evil thoughts, adulter- 
ies, murders," etc. (See Matt. 15:2; Mark 7:2-23.) 
Hence it is a perversion of the Word of God to apply 
the above scriptures to the use of tobacco, whiskey, 
etc. But even in resorting to those passages the 
user of the weed condemns himself, because both his 
sickening ambeer and his suffocating smoke comes 
out of his mouth. While he condemns himself, how- 
ever, he justifies beer and whiskey topers; for the 
stuff they swallow does not usually come out of 
their mouths again, as the tobacco does. 



THE USE OP TOBACCO A SIN 77 

Another excuse that we have heard professors 
of Christ use for their idol is this : "My pipe is much 
company for me." Others who live alone, have 
said, "It is all the company I have." And we have 
known some to affirm that their tobacco was all the 
comfort they had in the world. All these expres- 
sions too truly and sadly declare a graceless heart 
and a Christless life. Every real child of God has 
far better company and much sweeter comfort in the 
presence and approving smile of Christ than in plug 
or pipe, cigar or snuff. Tobacco is indeed a "miser- 
able comforter." The very fact that a person con- 
descends to such filthy company, proves him to be 
without the comforting presence of the pure Son of 
God. May no professed child of God ever again in- 
sult Christ by preferring the vile weed to him for 
company. 

Finally, it is said that God made the tobacco- 
plant, that he pronounced all he made " very good," 
and that therefore tobacco is good for man to use. 
But the distribution of herbs, fruits, and plants was 
for man, beasts, birds, and insects, as is shown in 
Gen. 1:29-31: 

And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb 
bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and ev- 
every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to 
you it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the earth 
and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creep- 
eth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every 
green herb for meat: and it was so. And God saw every 
thing that he had made, and behold it was very good. And 
the evening and the morning were the sixth day. 

Here we see that God created some things for 

man and others for "birds and creeping things." 

All was "very good" for its designed purpose. But 



78 THE BROWN GOD 

things good in their place, become a curse when sub- 
verted to a wrong use. So the Creator has clearly 
indicated that it was not his purpose that men should 
stuff into their mouths and stomachs everything he 
had made, but that they should use proper discrimi- 
nation between what was made for them to eat and 
what was made for worms. And when men tran- 
scend their bill of fare, they invariably find that 
some things "very good" for worms are very poison- 
ous to men. 

Look at the two classes of tobacco-lovers. The 
worms grow rapidly and fatten upon it ; whereas the 
silly army of human tobacco-consumers are, with 
few exceptions, a lean, haggard, dried up, smoked, 
and wretched class. So what is "very good" for 
"creeping things" proves a curse to man, tending 
to make him also a poor, sluggish, creeping thing on 
earth. Oh, that men were wise and would keep 
themselves pure and upright from the great trans- 
gression ! 

As tobacco-using involves both a sinful practice 
and a filthy condition, it is the province of both jus- 
tification and sanctification to stop its use. As the 
first work of grace is conditioned upon a thorough 
repentance, and an entire cessation of sinning, no 
person who has heard the full gospel, which con- 
demns the tobacco-sin with all others, can repent of 
other transgressions and receive pardon for them, 
and still use tobacco, any more than he can find mer- 
cy while he continues to practice any other vice. He 
can not do it. Unless he repents of, and abandons, 
all forms of transgression, he can find pardon for 



THE USE OF TOBACCO A SIN 79 

none. Here, in " first principles" of salvation, is 
the proper place for sinners to " cleanse their hands" 
from handling;, and their mouths from using, the 
filthy weed. Still, we allow the possibility of men's 
attaining pardon without giving up the unclean 
weed, under the frequent low standard of preach- 
ing, which not only does not condemn the sin, but 
frequently justifies it by the filthy example of both 
preachers and people. 

But even those who have made a profession of 
Christ without having heard tobacco-using renounc- 
ed as a sin, will, if they continue the unclean prac- 
tice, do so under more or less protest of conscience. 
They know and feel that the practice is wrong, and 
if they have any degree of justification before God, 
it is because they are not able to quit the habit and 
have not learned that Christ can and will give them 
perfect deliverance from the filthy tyrant. Sueh 
are more or less overcome with doubts and beset 
with shame, because they know that their practice is 
not to the glory of God, but that it is the result of an 
unnatural ' ' lust of uncleanness, ' ' which has the mas- 
tery over them. Hence all such, when the "true 
light shines" to them, have to stop their practice 
and repent of it, thus "clearing themselves" (I Cor. 
7:11). 

Even without the light of any teaching on the 
subject of tobacco-using, many children of God be- 
come condemned for their unclean habit and quit 
it; while doubtless a greater number come under 
condemnation and remain there. As conscience, if 
unheeded, becomes seared as with a hot iron, mem- 



80 THE BROWN GOD 

foers of the latter class may imagine themselves all 
right while living in their filthy lusts. But with the 
light of the Bible shining, no person can be justified, 
much less sanctified, while using tobacco. 

Moreover, no person can deal in tobacco in the 
name of Jesus, because Christ is not in such filthy 
business; hence the dealer in tobacco disobeys the 
law of the Lord, which requires us to " do all things 
to the glory of God." Hence the business is sin. 

One fact leaves every tobacco-slave without ex- 
cuse when he hears the pure gospel of Christ ; name- 
ly, His power and willingness to cleanse the very 
worst cases. He will heal the tobacco-disease instan- 
taneously and so perfectly that the stuff will hence- 
forth be utterly loathed. To this there are thou- 
sands of living witnesses. Many of them had used 
it in enormous quantities and for as many as forty 
and fifty years. It is a great miracle of course, but 
none the less a fact. Though the poison has impreg- 
nated every drop of blood in the system and every 
fiber of the body, the Lord is able to cleanse, and he 
will cleanse (Joel 3:21). Here we have our final 
proof that tobacco-using is a sin; namely the fact 
that God treats it as such. 

If we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have 
fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ 
ihs Son eleanseth us from all sin * * If we confess our sins, 
he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse 
us from all unrighteousness. I John 1:7-9. 

Here is the promise of God that the blood will 
cleanse us from all sin and all unrightousness. Oh ! 
let all who read these words be pure through the 
blood of Christ and glorify God with clean mouths 
and hands and pure hearts. 



(MEN WH OFAIL - FalAssill 




•I'M NOT COINC TO HURT MYSELF WORKING. THE BOSS DIPNT RAISE ME THE FIRST OF THE NEAR." 

From "Detroit Journal", January 21, 1916. 



CHAPTER VI. 
THE ANTI-TOBACCO BATTLE 

''Who will stand up for me against the workers of in- 
iquity V 9 Psa. 94:16. 

' < Ye that love the Lord hate evil. ' ' Psa. 97:10. 

THE Tobacco Evil is 7 next to the liquor traffic, the 
greatest evil in this land; and the next great 
battle to be fought, after the removal of the abomin- 
able liquor traffic has been accomplished, will be a 
battle against the tobacco business. Preparations 
should begin now, and the work pressed forward 
with all possible speed. 

The Magnitude of the Evil. 
The sum total of the evil effects of tobacco, in its 
various forms on our civilization, can hardly be real- 
ized even by the best informed. We have never 
seen a generation of men free from its blasting and 
demoralizing affects. The only way an adequate 
conception of the magnitude of this evil could be ob- 
tained, would be to be able to observe the difference 
between the lifetime 's work of a generation of clean, 
energetic, honest, beneficent, intellectually and phy- 
sically vigorous men ; and a generation of men more 
or less filthy, indolent, dishonest, dependent, debili- 



THE ANTI-TOBACCO BATTLE 83 

tated, insane and debauched in body and mind by 
the use of tobacco from youth. 

The more violent, immediate and visible affect 
of liquor, has led most of us to believe it to be the 
greatest evil in this land, which in some ways, at 
least, it is. But we believe that the intelligent, far- 
seeing student of the tobacco evil will come to the 
conclusion that Tobacco is at least as great if not a 
greater evil. The more general use of tobacco, and 
that by such a large. per cent of our boys in their 
tender years, blighting and blasting their physical 
and mental development, gnawing as it does at their 
vitality like a loathsome disease, the fore-runner of 
drink and all that is associated with it, together with 
its tremendous economic waste, makes it an evil to be 
compared only with the monstrous liquor traffic. 
Tobacco Must Follow Liquor. 

The removal of the liquor traffic alone will not 
give us a physically, mentally and morally clean and 
vigorous manhood. The work, to be complete, must 
be followed by the removal of the tobacco business. 

Ministers and Christian workers generally 
should wake up to this fact and begin now to lay 
the ground work — the foundation for a battle that 
will take years to win, but must be won before the 
perfect fruits of the removal of the liquor traffic can 
be realized. 

A Herculean Task. 

The destruction of the Tobacco Evil will be a 
Herculean task. It will require at least decades of 
earnest, systematic, energetic, united effort on the 
part of Christian and philanthropic people. It will 



84 THE BROWN GOD 

be a bigger task than the destruction of the liquor 

traffic which seems now to be nearing its end. 

The tobacco business is more thoroughly com- 
mercialized even than the liquor business. It is 
backed by a gigantic trust that is as unscrupulous 
and greedy as the liquor interests. To demonstrate 
that fact, all that is needed is to begin the fight a- 
gainst it. Nearly every retail store in the country 
is sharing in the ill-gotten gains of the Tobacco bus- 
iness. 

Thousands of farmers are engaged in the profit- 
able cultivation of tobacco whose business would be 
destroyed, for this product can be turned to no other 
use that we know of (but to kill lice and other ver- 
min) as is the case with the products of the farm 
from which liquors are made. 

And though the affects of tobacco are of the 
same general nature as those of liquor, they are less 
violent, more subtile and thus excite less opposition; 
so that recruits for the Anti-Tobacco Battle will be 
harder to secure than for the battle against liquor. 

All these work together to make the destruc- 
tion of the tobacco evil a Herculean task, but none 
the less a duty as commanding and necessary ~as~the 
destruction of the liquor traffic. 

But the winning fight that has been made a- 
gainst the liquor traffic, has not only taught the peo- 
ple how to fight such an evil, but it has given them 
courage and confidence in the success of such an un- 
dertaking. The courageous, energetic, intelligent 
use of the means at hand will win this battle in less 



THE ANTI-TOBACCO BATTLE 85 

time than it has taken or will take to win the battle 
against liquor. 

The Methods to Pursue. 

The axe should be laid at the root of the tree. 
Yes, and laid with mighty strokes by strong hands, 
directed by the best intellects, and governed by the 
only true wisdom — the wisdom that comes from God 
and which He gives those who are workers together 
with Him. This evil, as well as every other evil, 
will never be destroyed except upon our initiative 
and with God's co-operation. 

The root of the tree is the acquisition of the habit 
by the young. Though to raise up the fallen is al- 
ways commendable and a very gracious work, it is 
not so wise and beneficent as to save them from fall- 
ing. Ruskin has said, "Every day I am more sure 
of the mistake made by good people universally in 
trying to pull fallen people up instead of keeping 
the yet safe ones from tumbling after them, and in 
always spending their pains on the worst instead of 
the best material." 

Our efforts should not be applied wholly or even 
principally to the adult who has already acquired 
the habit, though whatever can be done should be 
done, incidentally, to get adults to quit the habit, for 
the sake of their example, and because one freed 
from this tyrant of a habit, will become a most ener- 
getic and effective soldier in the battle against it. 

But the great mistake is to exhaust our energies 
on those who have already acquired the habit. While 
we may save one who is already more or less debili- 
tated beyond remedy by its use, we might save Inm- 



86 THE BROWN GOD 

tods of the young from its blighting effects to a 
lifetime of vigorous physical and intellectual service 
to God and humanity. Raise up a generation of men 
who have not acquired the habit while they were 
hoys and you will have a generation of men who will 
not only surpass our imaginations for physical and 
mental vigor and usefulness, but you will have a gen- 
eration of men who will put their heels on the head 
of the viper and crush out its life. The majority of 
men now being users cannot be induced to give their 
influence against the business, and legal prohibition 
cannot be secured until we have a generation of men, 
a majority of whom are free from the habit and who 
will vote for and help to support laws prohibiting its 
sale and use. 

A Campaign of Education. 

As in the battle against liquor, the first thing 
should be a campaign of education. But in this bat- 
tle, the educaton should be more generally applied 
to the young — even the very young — before they 
have gotten away from the mother's immediate care 
and influence ; for tobacco is an evil that attacks the 
young even as soon as they are old enough to get a- 
way from the mother's immediate oversight, and 
long before the liquor business has gotten a chance 
at him. 

Boys acquire the habit before even the parents 
know it, usually, and before they have had any in- 
structions whatever as to the evils of it. After they 
have acquired the habit, teachings do little good and 
it is a rare exception when a boy or a man can be in- 
duced to permanently break from the habit, or use 



THE ANTI-TOBACCO BATTLE 87 

his influence against it in a material or effective way. 

We find there is considerable literature to be 
had concerning the evils of the habit, but there is 
very little done toward educating the general public 
along this line and especially very little said or done 
about methods of preventing the young from acquir- 
ing the habit. 

The Need of Organization. 

There is no general organization for the purpose 
of combating this greatest of evils. We have Sun- 
day Schools to teach children the Bible and special 
days are set apart for special temperance teaching, 
but little or no attention is paid to Tobacco. We 
have a National W. C. T. U. to deal with the liquor 
question. They teach only incidentally upon the to- 
bacco evil. We have the Anti-Saloon League to 
deal with the liquor evil, and every Christian church 
worthy of the name puts all the influence it has a- 
gainst the liquor traffic, while its companion evil, To- 
bacco, is left almost untouched by the forces of 
righteousness. 

There is special organization against only one 
phase of the tobacco evil, and that is furnished by 
the Anti-Cigarette League of America, with head- 
quarters at Chicago. They are doing a good work, 
which ought to be more general, and be more gen- 
erally supported. 

But we have no general Anti-Tobacco organiza- 
tion able to adequately fight this monstrous evil, 
— one of the greatest evils. 

A few individuals, scattered here and there over 
the country, working independently and probably 



88 THE BROWN GOD 

along different lines, however sensible and needed 

the work may be, cannot accomplish much. General 

and intelligent organization is needed, and it should 

be and must eventually be even more thorough and 

efficient than the organization against the liquor 

traffic. 

The work of educating the people along this 
line and the accomplishment of many things that 
should be done, cannot be done without a thorough 
organization that will secure the co-operation of all 
good people interested in the general welfare of 
humanity. 

We should have a nation-wide Anti-Tobacco 
organization to battle against this great evil in all 
its forms. This we believe, could best be secured 
along the lines of the Anti-Saloon League. The va- 
rious church conferences ought to take it up and ap- 
point or elect delegates to form such an organization 
and provide for its support. 

If such a course meets with the approval of min- 
isters who read this booklet, we hope they will take 
the matter before their conferences and urge such 
action. If Editors of religious periodicals approve 
such a course, they should advocate it through their 
publications. 

Another way to secure such an organization 
would be for ministers and laymen to organize in 
their respective congregations. Write to L. H. 
Higley, Butler, Ind., for a free copy of a suggested 
constitution, sample pledge cards and further sug- 
gestions as to methods of organization and work. 

Ask other ministers and congregations in your 



THE ANTI-TOBACCO BATTLE 89 

city to form similar organizations. Then hold a 
union meeting and form a city organization. These 
may be extended into county, state and national or- 
ganizations eventually. 

Object of Organization. 

The principal object of the organization should 
be to prevent the acquisition of the habit by the 
young. There are many things that may be done, 
both directly and indirectly, to help to that end. 
We will mention only. a few. No doubt the reader 
will be able to devise many more. 

Educate the general public on the subject by 
frequent sermons and lectures, through the press, 
special entertainments where children speak pieces 
and give readings on the tobacco evil. 

See that the evils of tobacco are taught in the 
Sunday School on temperance days. Urge teach- 
ers in the primary departments, to teach it to the 
children. But do not stop with this general method. 
The best person in the world to interest in this work 
is the fathers and mothers, who should be warned 
not only of the evils to tobacco, but of the fact that a 
very large portion of the boys learn to use tobacco 
before the parents have suspected it. 

The parents should teach their children of the 
affects of tobacco even before they enter the public 
schools, or get out among other children and are led 
into its use. An ounce of prevention is worth a 
pound of cure in this case surely. 

Hundreds of thousands of innocent children are 
led into this habit before a word of warning has been 
given. They are entitled to our protection in this as 



90 THE BROWN GOD 

well as other ways. 

After the boys have been thoroughly informed 
on the subject they should be pledged against it. 
Write to L. H. Higley, Butler, Ind., for pledge cards, 
or head a sheet of paper something like this : 
ANTI-TOBACCO PLEDGE 

We each hereby promise, upon our word and 
honor, never to chew, smoke or use Tobacco in any 
form and to use our most earnest efforts to induce 
others to abstain from its use. 

Name Address 

Let every one who signs the pledge be a mem- 
ber of your Anti-Tobacco League. 

In connection with either the church or Sunday 
School, have an entertainment given, the children 
speaking pieces and giving readings on the affects 
of tobacco and cigarettes. In no other way can you 
m effectually bring the people face to face with this 
evil that is blighting the lives and prospects of our 
boys. 

Co-operate with Public Schools. 

There is no place where the tobacco habit is 
more generally acquired than where boys of all 
classes are congregated in the public schools. 

The co-operation of a local organization with 
the public school teachers and officials, will no doubt 
usually be acceptable and influential. 

See that no teacher is employed in your public 
schools who uses tobacco and will not use his or her 
influence against it. See that the right kind of men 
are placed upon the city school board, men who will 
look after this and other similar moral matters. 



THE ANTI-TOBACCO BATTLE 91 

Legislation Against the Evil. 

Much may be done to lessen this evil by the 
right kind of legislation and proper enforcement of 
law. But legislation can very seldom be secured 
by the influence of separate individuals. Organiza- 
tion is necessary and it requires a very strong or- 
ganization to secure legislation, especially of this 
kind. So we urge the importance of a nation-wide 
organization. 

This organization should first create public 
sentiment and then supplement and clinch it with 
legislation. Anti-cigarette and anti-tobacco laws 
have been passed and repealed or become dead let- 
ters in several of the states for various reasons, but 
that does not in any way prove that wise laws prop- 
erly enforced are not eminently needed in this line. 
In fact such laws must be secured and be properly 
enforced before we can reasonably hope for any- 
thing like complete relief from this great evil. 

The best Anti-Tobacco law we have seen is the 
Kansas law which is as follows : 

"Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, 
company, or corporation to sell or give away any 
cigarettes or cigarette papers, or to have any cigar- 
ettes or cigarette papers in or about any store or 
other place for free distribution or sale. 

"Section 2. Every minor person and every min- 
or pupil in any school, college, or university, who 
shall smoke or use cigarettes, cigars, or tobacco in 
any form, or in any public road, alley, street, park 
or other lands used for public purposes, or in any 
public place of business, shall be guilty of a misde- 



92 THE BROWN GOD 

meanor and, on conviction, punished for each of- 
fense by a fine of not more than $10, and every per- 
son who shall furnish any cigarettes, cigars or to- 
bacco, in any form, to such minor persons, or who 
shall permit such minor persons to frequent any 
premises owned, held, or managed by him, for the 
purpose of indulging in the use of cigarettes, cigars, 
or tobacco in any form, shall be guilty of a misde- 
meanor and on conviction be punished by a fine of 
not less than $25 nor more than $100 for each offense. 
" Section 3. Every person, company, or corpora- 
tion violating Section 1 of this act shall be deemed 
guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction shall be 
fined not less than $25 nor more than $100." 

The law, however, lacks one important feature 
to enable its effective enforcements, and that is a 
provision making it an offense for any minor to have 
tobacco in any form in his possession. It is a difficult 
matter often to catch them in the act of receiving or 
giving it but much easier to find it in their possess- 
ion. If it is kept out of their possession altogether, 
the end for which the law is made will be accom- 
plished. 

One of the first laws that should be secured is 
one compelling thorough and adequate instructions 
in our public schools, beginning in the primary 
grades, concerning the poisonous nature to tobacco 
and its affects on the body and mind. The reason 
so many of the anti-tobacco laws are not properly 
enforced and are finally repealed, is that the public 
is not sufficiently informed as to the evils of the 
habit. 



TPIE ANTI-TOBACCO BATTLE 93 

Legal prohibition in tobacco is as necessary as 

legal prohibition in liquor, and it will be harder to 

get, unless affairs in general are materially changed 

in the next few years. 

A law to be effective and long endure, must 
have the support of a considerable majority of the 
voters of this country. At present a large majority 
of our voters are addicted to the tobacco habit in 
one form or another, and to secure a law providing 
for the general prohibition of tobacco is a practical 
impossibility. In order to make such a law possible, 
we must have a generation of voters, a large major- 
ity of whom are free from the tobacco habit. 

This condition can be secured in time hy secur- 
ing and enforcing laws against the sale or giving of 
tobacco to children, and by the employment of other 
means of preventing our boys from acquiring the 
habit until we can raise a generation of voters that 
are not users of tobacco and will vote for laws pro- 
hibiting its manufacture and sale. Woman suffrage 
will go even farther in securing the prohibition of 
tobacco than of liquor. 



CHAPTER VII. 
SHOET STORIES ABOUT TOBACCO 

"The heart of him that hath understanding seeketfc 
knowledge.'' Prov. 15:14. 

1 ' Give attention to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. ' ' 
I Tim. 4:13. 

WE HAVE gathered into this chapter, matter, 
that may be used in various ways by workers 
against the tobacco evil. Some may be used for rec- 
itations and others for readings in getting up a pro- 
gram for an evening's entertainment dealing with 
the subject. 

Others may be used as readings for the boys 
When your boy wants a story or you wish to enter- 
tain him, read him some of these stories. Others 
may be used in getting up sermons and addresses on 
the subject. 

A Child's Sad Death. 

Tobacco is a poison. Here is a fact in proof. 
James Tenny was about eight years old, when a vis- 
itor to his father's house gave him a bright penny 
as he was going to bed, and he lay awake part of the 
night thinking what he should buy with it in the 
morning. That penny proved his ruin. He went 
early as the sun rose to a grocery and called for 
sugar-plums. The mischevious clerk told him he 
had no plums, but he had something better which h« 



SHORT STORIES ABOUT TOBACCO 95 
would give him. He took a piece of tobacco coated 
it thick with sugar, and told the little boy to put it 
into his mouth, and swallow it right down. He did 
*o, and in a few minutes he began to feel the fatal 
effects of the poisonous weed. He ran home as fast 
as he could; but his sickness increased with every . 
step, and deadly pale, and trembling with fear, he 
frightened his parents and friends by telling them 
he had swallowed something bad. They soon found 
it was tobacco. The physicians were called, the 
stomach pump use,, and other remedies, but all in 
vain. Nature vainly roused all her forces to rescue 
him ; in the struggle the blood burst from his fingers 
and toes, and his body was convulsed with spasms. 
In two hours and .a half the child died a victim to 
tobacco, and to the vile practical joRe of a tobacco 
ehewer. 

But it told the tale of the poisonous nature of 
this mean Indian plant, which no creature is foolish 
enough to eat but depraved man, except the loath- 
somest sort of a green worm, and the ugliest species 
of African goat. Every body in the village cried 
out against the clerk, and his master turned him a- 
way. Many persons gave up chewing and smoking 
and snuffing; but in a little while they forgot the 
warning, and went at it again. So powerful are the 
charms of this foul narcotic that health and long 
life are sacrificed to it by millions. 
Giving Up Tobacco. 

Sammy Hick, the Micklefield blacksmith, one 
day gave six pence to a poor widow. She blessed 
him, and could hardly find words enough with which 



96 THE BROWN GOD 

to express her thanks. He said to himself, "Well, if 
sixpence makes that poor creature so happy, oh) 
how many sixpences have I spent in filling my mouth 
with tobacco!" He made a vow instantly, never to 
let a pipe enter his lips again. Soon afterwards, he 
was taken very ill, and a doctor said to him, "Mr. 
Hick, you must resume your pipe." "I will not," 
he replied." Then," said the doctor, "if you do not, 
you will not live." "Bless the Lord! then," said 
Sammy, "I shall go to heaven, I have made a vow 
to the Lord that the pipe shall never enter my mouth 
again; and it never shall." He kept his vow. and 
lived to be an old man. 

104 Years Old and Used Tobacco. 
"Sir," he inquired, "are you sure the old man 
lived and smoked till he was a hundred and four?" 
"Yes," he replied. "How did he look?"" He look, 
ed like an Egyptian mummy." "Had he moral 
sensibilities?" "Oh, no; he appeared to have no 
sense of God or religion whatever." "Did he mani- 
fest any public spirit ; did he like good schools, good 
roads, good order, and the like?" "Oh, no; no more 
than a mud-turtle or an oyster." "Had he a fam- 
ily?" "Yes, a large one and a mean one; — alto- 
gether too large." "Did he love his family?" "No; 
I think not." "Did he hate his family?" "No; I 
think not." "All in a word,— did he love anybody, 
dead or alive, in this world or in any world?" "No; 
I think not." "Well, well, brother; the conclusion 
of the whole matter is simply this: the old man wan 
dead fifty years ago, only you didn't bury him!" 



SHORT STORIES ABOUT TOBACCO 97 
The Culprit's Ruling Passion. 

The Editor of the Chenango Telegraph, in giv- 
ing an account of the execution of George Denison, 
who suffered at Norwich, New York, says that while 
standing upon the fatal drop, and during the expor- 
tation of the clergyman, the prisoner asked in a 
whisper, for the tobacco box of the deputy sheriff, 
from which he cooly took a quid, deposited it in his 
mouth, and returned the box. In ten minutes, he was 
launched into eternity. 

On the morning of the day that Hamilton, who 
shot Major Birdsall, was to be executed, the elergy 
passed two hours in solemn exercises with him. Af- 
ter they left the cell,. Hamilton gave some directions 
about his gallows wardrobe. As the keeper was 
leaving to execute his commission, he asked Hamil- 
ton if he wanted anything else. He replied, ''You 
may get be a paper of tobacco." After a moment's 
reflection, he added, "Stop, perhaps I have enough," 
— and rising on his elbow, drew a part of a paper 
from under the pillow of his pallet, and measuring 
in his mind the quantity of tobacco by the few hours 
he had to live, calmly remarked, "This will last me." 
Bad Habits Are Hard to Break. 

An old monk was once walking through a fovest, 
with a scholar by his side. He suddenly stopped 
and pointed to four plants that were close at hand. 
The first was just beginning to peep above the 
ground, the second had rooted itself well IntD the 
earth, the third was a small shrub, while the fourth 
was a full-sized tree. Turning to his young 1 com- 



98 THE BROWN GOD 

panion he said: "Pull up the first." The boy eas- 
ily did so. "Now pull up the second." The youth 
obeyed but not so easily. "And now the third." 
The boy had to put forth all his strength, and use 
both arms, before he succeeded in uprooting it. 
"And now," said the master, "try your hand upon 
the fourth." But although the lad grasped the 
trunk of the tree in his arms, he scarcely shook its 
leaves, and found it impossible to tear its roots from 
the earth. Then the wise old man explained to his 
scholar the meaning of the four trials. 

: "This, my son, is just what happens to our bad 
habits and passions. "When they are young and 
weak, one may, by a little watchfulness over self, 
easily tear them up ; but if we let them cast their 
roots deep down into our souls, no human power can 
uproot them. Only the almighty hand of the Cre- 
ator can pluck them out. For this reason, my boy, 
watch your first impulses." 

A story is told of a giant who fell in with a com- 
pany of pigmies. He roared with laughter at their 
insignificant stature and their magnificent preten- 
tions. He ridiculed with fine scorn and sarcasm 
their high-sounding threats. When he fell asleep 
they bound him with innumerable threads and when 
he awoke he found himself a helpless captive. 
Some Experiments. 

Let us make an experiment. Here is a boy, ten 
years old, who has never used tobacco. 

"Charley, will you help us to make an experi- 
ment?" 



SHORT STORIES ABOUT TOBACCO 99 
"I will, sir." 

"Here is a piece of plug tobacco as large as a pea. 
Put it into your mouth, chew it. Don't let one drop 
go down your throat, but spit every drop of juice in- 
to that spittoon. Keep on chewing, spitting, chew- 
ing, spitting." 

Before he is done with that little piece of tobac- 
co, simply squeezing the juice out of it, without 
swallowing a drop, he will lie here on the platform 
in a cold, death-like, perspiration. Put your finger 
upon his wrist. There is no pulse. He will seem for 
two or three hours to be dying. 

Again, steep a plug of tobacco in a quart of 
water, and with the mixture bathe the neck and back 
of a calf troubled with vermin. You will kill the 
vermin, but if not very careful you will kill the calf 
too. These experiments show that tobacco, in its 
ordinary state, is an extremely powerful poison. 

Go to the chemist's; begin with the upper shelves 
and take down every bottle. Then open every draw- 
er, and you cannot find a single poison (except some 
rare one) which taken into the mouth of that ten- 
year-old boy and not swallowed, will produce such 
deadly effects. 

Good Security. 
"Mister, do you lend money here?" asked an 
earnest voice at the offtce door. 

The lawyer turned away from his desk, con- 
fronted a clear-eyed, poorly-dressed lad of seven 
years, and studied him keenly for a minute. "Some- 
times we do — on good security," he said gravely. 



100 THE BROWN GOD 

The little fellow explained that he had a chance 
"to buy out a boy that's cryin' papers.' ' He had 
half the money required, but he needed to borrow 
the other fifteen cents. 

"What security can you offer?" asked the law- 
yer. 

The boy's brown hand sought his pocket and 
drew out a paper carefully folded. It was a cheaply 
printed pledge against the use of intoxicating liquor 
and tobacco. As respectfully as if it had been the 
deed to a farm the lawyer examined it, accepted it, 
and handed over the required sum. 

A friend who had watched the transaction with 
silent amusement laughed as the young borrower de- 
parted. "You think I know nothing about him?" 
smiled the lawyer. "I know he came manfully, in 
what he supposed to be a business way, and tried to 
negotiate a loan instead of begging the money. I 
i^now that he has been under good influences or he 
would not have signed that pledge, and that he does 
not hold it lightly or he would not have cared for it 
$o carefully. I agree with him that one who keeps 
himself from such things has a character to offer as 
security." 

What King James Thought of Tobacco. 

King James I, said that the tobacco habit was 
' ' a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, 
harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and 
the black, stinking fumes thereof nearest resemble 
the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bot- 
tomless." 



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What a Woman Did For a Boy. 

The anecdote is told of Frederic the Great, that, 
when it was said a man had fallen from a ladder and 
broken his leg, he asked at once, "Who was she?" 
"It was no she at all, Your Majesty," was the reply; 






" it was a man." "Yes," said the monarch, "very 



likely ; but of course there was a woman at the bot- 
tom of it." And so inquiry, it proved that the man 
looking down to speak to a woman, had lost his foot- 
ing, and so he fell to the ground. But there is an- 
other side to "the woman in it," as the following 
narrative of fact so delightfully and instructively 
shows : 

1 ' When I first Game to New York, at the age of 
twelve years, to seek my fortune," says the narrator, 
"I can call myself a precocious chap without any 
danger of being accused of an unusual degree of 
self-appreciation. I was quick to learn everything 
— the bad as well as the good. My employer used 
profane language. I picked up the oaths he dropped 
with a naturalness that surprised myself. The boys 
in the office all chewed tobacco. This was a little 
the hardest job I ever attempted; but after two 
weeks of nausea and indescribable stomach wrench- 
ing, I came off victorious, and could get away with 
my paper of tobacco a day with the best of them. 
One afternoon I was sent with a note from my em- 
ployer to a house in the upper part of the city. I 
hadn't anything to read, but I had plenty of tobac- 
co; and with that I- proposed to entertain myself 
during the two or three hours I must spend in the 
passage. For some distance I did not notice who 



102 THE BROWN GOD 

were beside me, but by and by a lady said very soft- 
ly and pleasantly: " Would you please, little boy, be 
more careful ? I am going to a party this afternoon, 
and I should not like to have my dress spoiled. 7 I 
looked into her face. It was the sweetest face I 
ever saw. Pale, earnest, and loving; to my boyish 
heart it was the countenance of an angel. There 
was very little that I could say, I managed to dis- 
pose of the tobacco, however, and wiped my mouth 
very carefully — all of which I felt certain she saw 
and commented upon. 

'Have you a mother, little boy?' she next asked 
in the same tone. 

'No, ma'am,' I answered; and I felt my throat 
filling up, and I knew I must swallow very fast to 
keep from sobbing. 

'You have a father, then, I suppose?' she kept 
on. 

6 No, ma'am; no father.' 

* Brothers and sisters?' 

* Neither, ma'am.' 

'Then the little boy is alone in the world?' 

'Alone, ma'am.' 

'How long has your mother been dead?' and 
the dear woman looked away from my face, and 
waited until I could speak. 

'Two years,' I answered. 

'And you loved her?' came next. 

'Dearly/ was all that I could say. 

She was silent a moment, and then said, so 
sweetly — oh ! I hall never forget it : 



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'And what do you think your dear mother would 
say — how do you think she would feel — to know 
that her little boy was guilty of such a disgusting 
habit as this?' pointing to my cheek, where the tell 
tale quid had vainly tried to stand its ground. 'I 
must leave now/ she continued, 'but here is my card, 
and if you come to me most any evening, I shall be 
glad to see you, and perhaps we can be of service to 
each other.' 

1 She gave me her little gloved hand, and to my 
dying day I shall never forget the sensation of that 
moment. I could not bear to part with her ; without 
her I felt that I could do nothing ; with her, I could 
grow to a man's estate,:— a man in the true sense of 
the word. From that moment tobacco never passed 
my lips. As soon as I could summon courage, I call- 
ed upon that lady. Well do I remember how my 
heart beat as I waited in the elegant parlor for her 
to come down and how awkward I felt as I followed 
my guide to her private sitting-room. Here she got 
at every point of my life; and before I bade her 
good-by, it was arranged that I should spend two 
evenings of each week at her house, and study on 
these occasions just what she thought best. No lov- 
er ever looked forward to meeting with the mistress 
of his heart any more ardently than I did to these 
meetings with my friend. I grew careful of my 
personal appearance, careful of my conversation, 
and strove in every way to be worthy of this noble 
friendship. Two years passed in this delightful 
manner — two years that made me. My friend not 
only attended to my studies, striving also all the 



104 THE BROWN GOD 

while to sow the right kind of spiritual seed, but she 
procured rne a situation with a particular friend of 
hers, where I remain to this day. Nobody but God 
knows what I owe this woman. During the last 
three months of those two years I noticed that she 
grew constantly pale and thin; she never was be- 
trayed into speaking of herself. Sometimes, I would 
ask her if she felt worse than usual, she would reply : 

'Oh, no! I am a little tired — that's all.' 

'One evening she kept me by her sofa much 
longer than her custom, while she arranged lessons 
and laid out work enough, it seemed to me, for 
months. 

'"Why so much tonight?' I inquired, conscious 
that my heart ached, and vaguely suspecting the 
cause. 

'Because dear,' she answered, 'I do not want 
you to come for the next week, and I am anxious 
that you should have sufficient work to anticipate, 
as well as keep you busy. I think I can trust you to 
be a good boy, John?' 

'I think you can, ma'am,' I answered, almost 
sobbing. 

'If I should see your mother, my boy, before 
long, what shall I say to her for you I ' 

Then I knew all, and my grief knew no bounds. 
It is no'use to. go on. She died two days later; and 
when I hear folks say, ' There 's a woman at the bot- 
tom of it, ' I feel like telling the whole world what a 
woman did for me.' " 



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Cured of a Bad Habit. 

"I am reminded of the eccentricities of a com- 
mander in our naval service," remarked a veteran 
of the wave. ' * The officer in question had the suavest 
way of punishing a man for breaches of discipline 
that it was possible to conceive. I remember one 
incident in particular. There was a standing order 
against spitting on the deck, and commander Smith 
— that's not his real name, but it will do as well — 
was very strict in its enforcement. Sand buckets 
were placed about the lower decks, so that there 
could be no excuse. One day in the forenoon watch, 
Smith, who had an eye like a hawk, detected one un- 
lucky tar expectorate about a teaspoonful of tobac- 
co juice on to the spotless deck and then hurriedly 
try to swab it up. 'Come here, my man; didn't I 
see you spit on the deck?' "Yes, sir, but I forgot 
for the moment, sir, that it was against rules. I am 
very absent minded, sir.' 'Oh, you forgot, ehf 
Well, now I am sorry for that. And you are troub- 
led with absence of mind, too? That's unfortunate. 
Well, now, it's no use sending for the surgeon; phy- 
sicians can't minister to a mind diseased, you know. 
Still, something must be done. Let me see. Ah, I 
have it. Send the ship's corporal here. Now, cor- 
poral,' on that functionary's appearance, 'get one of 
those sand buckets and hang it around this man's 
neck, and you, my poor fellow, just keep an eye on 
the watch, and when anyone wants to spit, run and 
shove your bucket under his nose. This novel mode 
of punishment was noised through the ship and 
caused no end of fun, Every minute or so some one 



106 THE BROWN GOD 

would call for the perambulating cuspidor, and it is 
surprising the amount of tobacco juice expectorated 
that morning. At the end of the watch he was told 
he could unsling his bucket. 'Now, my man, is your 
absence of mind any better ? ' queried our command- 
er. "Yes, if you please, sir.' 'Ah, I thought so. 
Now you will have to be very careful of yourself 
that no relapse occurs. The health of my crew is 
always the first consideration with me.' " 
Dat Ole Pipe. 

"I say, brudder, I thought you belonged to the 
church ?" 

"So I does." 

"Den why are you suckin' that ole pipe?" 

"Can't a feller smoke a pipe and belong to the 
church?" 

"Well, yes, he may belong to the church build- 
in ' but never to the church triumphant." 

"How you make that out." 

"Well, brudder, look at it in dis way: how 
would you look walkin' de golden streets ob de New 
Jerusalem wid de pipe in yo mouf ?" 

"I would jus snatch it out berry quick." 

"Yes, but what would you do wid it? You could 
not find any place to frow it out ob sight ; no place 
to hide it; no way to get rid ob it. You hab been 
gibben a nice white garment to put on, and dare 
ain't any pocket in it to put de ole pipe in, so you 
will hab to hide it in you hand." 

"I say Brudder Jones, you are gettin a feller in 
a bad fix wid de ole pipe, de way you are puttin' it." 

"But dat aint all: by and by you will want a 



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smoke, and you will walk de golden streets tryin' to 
find a place to hide, so you can smoke ; and de streets 
ob dat city is bout fifteen hundred miles long, and 
if you should get to the end ob des treet you would 
fotch up agin de wall dat is made ob jasper, and so 
high you can't climb ober, and no hole in de wall to 
stick yo head for a smoke, and you will want a smoke 
so bad you will almost make up yo mind to smoke 
right in de golden city. Den you will begin to think 
ob gettin' a match to light de ole pipe and it will 
come ober you all ob a sudden dat dare ain't no 
matches in yo' new close. Den you would wish you 
was back in dis ole worl again, wid de ole close, and 
matches, and pipe, so you could take some comfut.' , 

"I say Brudder Jones, I can't stan dat. I can't 
afford to lose dem golden streets for de ole pipe, so 
here goes pipe, tobacco, matches and all." 

"Dat is right. If you was goin' to a weddin', 
where would you fix up ? " 

"I would fix up at home ob course." 

"Just so. Now if you spect to go to heaben you 
must get ready down here, for de church triumphant 
is de folks dat triumph ober all dare sins by de help 
of de Lord, ober all nasty habits, and lib just as pure 
as possible, havin' no wrong thing about them; for 
de Word says, 'Let him that is filthy be filthy still, 
and let him that is holy be holy still, ' so you see you 
will be just what you are when you fotch up in this 
worl; so if you lub to use de debbil's cologne, you 
will hab to go where de brimstone kinder kills de 
smell ; you nebber, nebber can get in de Golden City 
Cabin' on you de smell ob Dat Ole Pipe." 



108 THE BROWN GOD 

The Old Parmer's Tobacco. 

Farmer — "How many yards o' that truck will it 
take to make the ole woman a dress?" 

Clerk — "About twelve, I should say." 

"At three cents a yard it comes to thirty-six 
cents, I reckon twelve 's a leetle more 'en she '11 need. 
Just cut off six yards. Time's is close an' we have 
to be a little savin'." 

"Any buttons or thread?" 

"No, I reckon not. She can scratch enuff o 7 
them at home. Craps wain't extra this year an we 
kahx't afford ter fool no money away." 

"Is there anything else?" 

"I guess you may wrap up a quarter's wuth er 
sugar an' a dollar's wuth er chewin' terbaeker. 

"Pears like a sin to fool away money for sugar, 
but the ole woman thinks she kain't live thoutin' 
it an'ther habit o' usin it's got such a holt on 'er that 
she gits away with a quarter's wuth ev'ry month. 

Say, mebby you'd better put up two dollars 
wuth of that terbaeker, for I kain't tell ef I'll be 
down here ergin fer a month, anil want plenty ter 
do me." 

Smoking Tobacco. 

There is a story of a Quaker lady, who was ad- 
dicted to smoking tobacco. She had indulged in the 
habit until it had increased so much upon her, that 
she not only smoked her pipe a large portion of the 
day, but frequently sat up for this purpose in the 
night. After one of these nocturnal entertainments, 
she fell asleep, and dreamed that she died, and ap- 



SHORT STORIES ABOUT TOBACCO 109 
proached heaven. Meeting an angel, she asked him 
if her name was written in the book of life. He dis- 
appeared, but replied, upon returning, that he could 
not find it. "Oh!" said she, "do look again: it must 
be there." He examined again, but returned with 
sorrowful face, saying, "It is not there." "Oh!" 
she said in agony, ' ' it must be there ! I have the as- 
surance it is there! Do look again!" The angel 
was moved to tears by her entreaties, and again left 
her to renew his search. After a long absence, he 
came, his face radiant with joy, and exclaimed, "I 
have found it; but it was so clouded with tobacco 
smoke that it could hardly be seen." The woman, 
upon waking, immediately threw her pipe away, and 
never indulged in smoking again. 

A Warning Not Heeded. 

A clergyman advised a mother that he had seen 
her son smoking, only to be repulsed. Two years 
later, she was glad to ask him to do something for 
her besotted son ; but it was too late. The son died 
in a few years a drunkard and suicide. 
Vice Somewhere. 

President Lincoln used to tell this story of him- 
self. He was riding one day on the stage coach in 
Illinois, when the driver asked him to treat. "I 
never use liquor," was Mr. Lincoln's reply, "and 
cannot induce others to do so." "Don't chew neith- 
er?" "No, sir." "Nor smoke?" " No, sir : I nev- 
er use tobacco in any form." "Well," replied the 
disgusted Jehu, "I hain't much opinion of you fel- 
lers with no small vices. I allers noticed they make 
it up in big ones." 



110 THE BROWN GOD 

A Reformed Man's Testimony. 

A correspondent of the New York Evangelist 
says: "I had chewed this poison more than fifteen 
years. I had often doubted the utility of this prac- 
tice before I relinquished it. I found that one argu- 
ment whch I had employed against the use of ardent 
spirits applied with as much propriety to the use of 
tobacco. The argument is, that it must be unfriend- . 
ly to true piety, for the Christian, while in health, to 
be under the continued influence of poison. This 
produces a morbid excitement, directly opposed to 
that excitement which the Holy Spirit is producing. 
Thus I reasoned in reference to the use of ardent 
spirits, and was persuaded that the argument ap- 
plied also to the use of tobacco. In this state of 
mind I read several articles in the New York Evan- 
gelist, in opposition to this practice. I was in this 
way brought to the determination that I would sus- 
pend the use of tobacco, and see whether I could do 
without it. I had been moderate in the use of this 
poison, if there can be any moderation in using it, 
and supposed that it was exerting very little influ- 
ence over me. In less than two days after I had 
commenced this self-discipline, I experienced such a 
tormenting restlessness, such a prostration of 
strength as fully convinced me that tobacco was ex- 
erting a very powerful influence upon my system. 
When I perceived its influence, I was determined to 
break up this bad habit ; and then resolved fully to 
renounce the use of tobacco, as a powerful and hurt- 
ful stimulus for the human system. For a few days 
I suffered much from an almost insupportable un- 



SHORT STORIES ABOUT TOBACCO 111 

easiness in the whole system, which was calling loud- 
ly for its accustomed stimulus. But this only serv- 
ed to strengthen my resolution, and to convince me 
more and more of the importance of conquering this 
habit. I have persevered for more than six months, 
and have enjoyed during this period, much better 
health than while I used it. It is now hateful to me, 
and I have no desire again to resume its use. I 
would, from my own experience, call on my friends, 
and all others who are in bondage to this hateful 
weed, to follow my example. I mean to persevere, 
and am persuaded that I shall." 

A Minister's Repentance. 

A country minister being invited to preach the 
weekly lecture to a congregation in the city of New 
York, after dismissing the people, took out his tobac- 
co, and began to chew the filthy weed. A member 
of the church remonstrated with him on the sinful- 
ness of the practice, and stated that he could not ex- 
pect that impenitent sinners under his instructions, 
would give up their sins while he indulged in a sin 
himself. "I know it is wrong, " said the minister. 
"I have often resolved to give up the habit, but I 
have not resolution enough to persevere." 

"Why," said the other, "that is the very excuse 
the impenitent give for not repenting and forsaking 
their sins." 

"Well, I'll think it over as I go home," observ- 
ed the minister, "and perhaps I will give it up." 

"That will not do," replied the church member, 
' ' for we never allow this, if we can help it ; we ex- 



112 THE BEOWN GOD 

hort the impenitent to repent on the spot ; we never 
tell them to go home and repent, nor do we pray 
that they may repent when they reach home. ' ' 

"I see," said the minister, "I cannot get away 
so — therefore I will try to give up chewing." 

" But," remarked the other, "that will not do 
either. "We never urge sinners to try to give up 
their sins — do you?" 

"Why, no; I think it wrong to intimate that 
they cannot do it at once." 

"Will you act then as you preach, or let your 
conduct give the lie to your preaching?" 

"With the help of God," said the minister, "I 
will leave off the practice from this moment. ' ' 

A member of the church where this conversation 
took place, who was in the practice of chewing to- 
bacco, was so impressed with what had taken place, 
that he too solemnly promised to abjure the filthy 
habit without delay. 

Praying Over Tobacco. 

A pious sea captain had been in the habit of us- 
ing tobacco, for upwards of twenty years, and had 
made many and strenuous efforts to abandon its use, 
but without success. He was a nervous man, and 
loved strong tea and coffee as well as tobacco, for 
the stimulous it afforded him. He loved tobacco, as 
the drunkard loves alcohol. The force of the habit 
may be seen in the following circumstance : 

He had give up its use, as he thought, without 
mental reservation, and congratulated himself on the 



SHORT STORIES ABOUT TOBACCO 113 
victory he had obtained, after months of total ab- 
stinence. One day, being on charge in the city of 
N — (he was a ship mate at the time), and conversing 
with a brother shipmate, he found tobacco in his 
mouth without knowing how it came there. He ex- 
pressed his surprise at the fact to his companion, 
who answered with a boisterous laugh, ' ' I took out 
my tobacco box and handed it to you, and you delib- 
erately helped yourself/' He had acted under the 
influence of an old inveterate habit, and was not 
conscious of having done so, until he had tasted the 
tobacco. Such was the strength of the habit. Find- 
ing at length that it clung to him like a disease, and 
defied all his efforts, and being persuaded that the 
conflict of mind to which he was subject, by reason 
of its use, was actually imparing his usefulness as a 
man and a Christian, he decided upon making one 
more effort. He was persuaded that Divine assist- 
ance alone could make that effort successful, and act- 
ed accordingly. He took the tobacco from his pocket, 
placed it in a chair, knelt before it, and solemnly 
pledged himself to God, that he would use it no long- 
er, even as a medicine, though prescribed by a phy- 
sician. He then implored the Divine blessing upon 
the attempt, arose from his knees threw the tobacco 
into the street and went about his business. He has 
not, he states, had a particle of a desire for its use 
from that time to the time of his narration, a period 
of more than two years. 

Money For Missions. 
A minister in England had been pleading with 
his congregation the claims of the poor heathen on 



114 THE BROWX GOD 

Christian benevolence, and strongly urging on them 
the duty of contributing to the support of mission- 
ary exertions. His friends readily contributed ac- 
cording to their several abilities. The next year, 
when the missionary collection was about to be made. 
the minister received a one proud note from a poor 
laboring man. with a statement to the following ef- 
fect: ' : >S:r. when you preached the missionary ser- 
mon last year. I was grieved that I had it not in my 
power to give what I wished. I thought and 
thought, and consulted my wife whether there was 
anything which we could spare without stinting the 
the poor children; but it seemed that we lived as. 
near as possible in every respect, and had nothing 
but what was absolutely necessary. At last it came 
into my mind. *'Is that fourpenee which goes every 
week for an ounce of tobacco absolutely necessa: 
I had been used to it so long, that I scarcely the 1 : 
it possible to do without it : however. I resolved to 
try; so. instead of spending the fourpenee. I dropped 
it into a box. The first week I felt it sorely ; but the 
second week it was easier; and. in the course of a 
few weeks, it was little or no sacrifice at all ; at least 
I can say. that the pleasure far outweighed the sac- 
rifice. "When my children found what I was doing, 
they wished to contribute also ; and. if ever they got 
a penny or a half penny given them for their own 
pleasure, it was sure to rind its way into the box in- 
stead of the cake shop. On opening the box.I have 
the pleasure to rind that our collected pence amount 
to one pound which I now enclose, and pray that the 
Lord mav rive his blessing with it. I am thankful 



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for having thus broken off a dirty and expensive 
habit, and I have enjoyed more health and cheerful- 
ness since I left off that which I once thought it was 
impossible for me to do without." 

Battle With Appetite. 

A gentleman (he is such now,) who used to be a 
tremendous rum-drinker, tobacco-chewer and smok- 
er ; but for several years past has been a reformed 
man, writes to a friend in the city of New York, in 
the following terms: "I have seen the time that my 
desire for tobacco has been vastly stronger than it 
ever has been for food. Once I was on a lee-shore ; 
the wind blew, the sea was tremendous. The last 
time I saw the rocky shore, it was three miles to the 
leeward. It was late in the afternoon ; I felt certain 
we should be on the rocks before morning, if the 
wind continued. I felt in my pocket for some to- 
bacco, but could find none. I examined every part 
of the vessel where I thought it possible to find any. 
I inquired of the crew but there was none on board. 
At that time I would have given fifty dollars for one 
quid. The gale ceased, we soon found a harbor, and 
the first thing I inquired for was tobacco. 

I chewed about twenty-one years, and smoked 
about eighteen. For a long time before I quit the 
use of tobacco, I believed it was injurious to me, but 
I felt it was almost impossible to leave it off. Even- 
tually I was awakened, and felt that such practices 
were sinful. I then thought I would try to leave 
them off. When I quit smoking, I felt comparatively 
that I had lost all my friends. I could not eat or 
sleep as usual; I felt restless, and for some weeks 



116 THE BROWN GOD 

quer a habit that had become so strong. But at last 
it was overcome. I then thought I would quit chew- 
ing — then came the struggle. To quit smoking was 
but a trifle in comparison. After I had determined 
to try to quit chewing, I always kept a piece of to- 
bacco in my pocket. I was doubtful whether I 
should be able to leave it off. Many times, before I 
was aware of it I found I had had a piece in my 
mouth a long time. As soon as I perceived it, I would 
take it out, but often before it was discharged, I 
would give it one solid grind. There is nothing in 
the world so exquisitely sweet as tobacco. In a few 
months the habit was overcome, but it was almost 
like plucking out my right eye, or cutting off my 
right arm. When I had entirely ceased from using 
it — I had a better appetite — my sleep was sweeter, 
my mind more composed — my nerves were more firm 
— I grew more fleshy; and now I enjoy perfect 
health, and can endure double the fatigue that I 
could for a long time before I quit the use of to- 
bacco." 

Saved From Tobacco. 
A prominent member and official in a New York 
church had been addicted to the constant use of to- 
bacco for forty years, until its daily use had become 
seemingly necessary to health, if not to life. He 
had made many efforts to rid himself of the doubt- 
ful practice, but always failed because of the inward 
gnawing which its long-continued use had created, 
and which forced him to begin the practice again. 
At last, on a certain occasion, in the presence of a 



SHORT STORIES ABOUT TOBACCO 117 
friend, he said, "I have long been seeking a deeper 
work of grace; tobacco appears to hinder me; but 
I had not supposed it possible to be saved from the 
dreadful power of this habit until now. Never be- 
fore have I trusted Jesus to save me from the appe- 
tite as well as the use of it, but now I do, ' ' and suit- 
ing the action to the word, he threw far away from 
him the tobacco he held in his hand. He still lives, 
and for several years has reiterated this testimony: 
"From that hour all desire left me, and I have ever 
since hated what I once so fondly loved." 
Tobacco and Conversion. 
"While the Florence Mission in New York was 
founded for the benefit of lost girls, the number of 
male converts is in excess. Referring to one of 
these, a young man of much promise, to whom I had 
given employment, Mr. Gibbard, in charge of the 
above mission inquired: "How is W — getting a- 
long?" "Remarkably well," I replied; "he is very 
quick to learn, and seems to be thoroughly convert- 
ed." "Has he given up tobacco?" "No," I said. 
"He is gone then." "But," I questioned, "may his 
case not be an exception to the general rule? His 
father has always used it, and has also been a very 
active church member ; the young man has for years 
while a wandering boy, looked back upon his fa- 
ther's way of living as nearly perfect." "I cannot 
help that," he answered, "its the tow-line by which 
the devil will throw him down when he least expects 
it. Out of one hundred converts who have refused 
to give up the use of tobacco, but one of them has 
stood a year, and I am daily expecting to hear of his 



118 THE BBOWN GOD 

downfall. The odds are too heavy against him; he 
will surely fall." In one month from this time the 
young man had left his situation to return to a life 
of vice in his old haunts in the dives and low-class 
sporting houses of New York City. 
Abandoning Smoking. 

A writer in the Ohio Observer says : " When the 
use of tobacco was fashionable even among the gen- 
teel, in walking through a village, I passed a store 
where I knew there were some very fine cigars. I 
was immediately seized with the hankering so well 
known to habitual smokers. The determination a- 
rose to lay out a few shillings in purchasing some. 
As I had been endeavoring to accustom myself to 
regard my money as the Lord's and myself as the 
steward, I tried the rule in that case. I found my- 
self unwilling to charge such an item on my account 
book. A faithful steward would make no such ex- 
penditure, thought I. The money which had been 
taken out was dropped again into my pocket, and I 
passed on. I have ever found it difficult to smoke 
cigars since that time. The cure which I propose is, 
to ask the blessing of God on all expenditures, and 
try to be faithful stewards of the Lord's money." 
Marks of Tobacco. 

"I've got a boy for you, sir. " " Glad of it ; who 
is he?" asked the master workman of a large estab- 
lishment. The man told the boy's name, and where 
he lived. "Don't want him," said the master work- 
man; "he has got a bad mark." "A bad mark, sir! 
What?" "I meet him every day with a cigar in his 
mouth. I don't want smokers." 



SHORT STORIES ABOUT TOBACCO 119 
The Parable of the Tobacco Seed. 

(This may be used as a reading in an entertain- 
ment on the tobacco question. Let some bright boy 
read it as though it were the Scripture lesson.) 

Then shall the kingdom of Satan be likened to a 
grain of Tobacco seed, which, though exceedingly 
small, being cast into the ground grew, and became a 
great plant, and spread its leaves, rank and broad, 
so that huge and vile worms formed a habitation 
thereon. And it came to pass, in the course of time, 
that the sons of man looked upon it, and thought it 
beautiful to look upon and much to be desired to 
make lads look big and manly. So they put forth 
their hands and did chew thereof. And some it 
made sick, and others to vomit most filthily. And it 
further came to pass that those who chewed it be- 
came weak and unmanly, and said, "We are enslav- 
ed and can not cease from chewing it." And the 
mouths of all that were enslaved became foul; and 
they were seized with a violent spitting; and they 
did spit, even in the ladies' parlors, and in the house 
of the Lord. And the saints of the Most High were 
greatly plagued thereby. And in the course of time 
it came also to pass that others snuffed it, and they 
were taken suddenly with fits, and they did sneeze 
with a great and mighty sneeze, insomuch that their 
eyes were filled with tears and they did look exceed- 
ingly silly. And others cunningly wrought the 
leaves into rolls, and did set fire to the one end 
thereof, and did suck vehemently at the other end 
thereof and did look very grave and calf -like ; and 
the smoke of their torment ascended up like a fog. 



120 THE BBOWN GOD 

And the cultivation thereof became a great and 
mighty business in the earth; and the merchants 
waxed rich by the commerce thereof. And it came 
to pass that the professed saints of the Most High 
defiled themselves therewith ; even the poor who 
could not buy shoes, nor bread, nor books for their 
little ones, spent their money for it. And the Lord 
was greatly displeased therewith and said, "Be ye 
clean that bear the vessels of the Lord." "Let us 
cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh." 
"Wherefore come out from among them and be ye 
separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean 
thing and I will receive you." But with one accord 
they exclaimed, "We can not cease from chewing, 
snuffing and puffing !" 

Minister Eebuked. 
Mr. J. is a ministerial man, so far as dress and 
general appearance are concerned, but in reality of 
the legal profession. Traveling in the West a few 
years since, he chanced to put up for the night at a 
hotel where a number of wild fellows were carous- 
ing. As he entered the bar-room, the uproar sud- 
denly ceased, but upon his leaving it for a few min- 
utes the revelry began again. When he returned a 
hush fell upon the company a second time. Soon 
Mr. J. stepped up to the bar and said, "Landlord, 
give me a cigar." Upon this the noisy and profane 
company entered without restraint upon their rude 
sport. The landlord attempted to check them, and 
in an undertone said, "This gentleman is possibly a 
minister." "We don't care if he is," they shouted, 



"he is no better than we are!" 



SHORT STOEIES ABOUT TOBACCO 121 
Why Bro. Thoughtful Never Used Tobacco. 

Martin Wells Knapp. 
He was bright when a boy and became a very 
observing man. Always having his eyes open he 
observed the following facts in regard to the use of 
tobacco. May others be influenced by them as wisely 
as he was. 

1. Its use does no good. 

2. It is a filthy habit. 

3. The user sets a bad example for others. 

4. It is a slavish habit. It chains its victim 
tighter and tighter the longer he uses it. 

5. It is a wasteful habit. He would be thought 
crazy who would take a five dollar bill in his mouth 
and chew it up and spit it out, or roll it up and 
smoke it ; but many destroy more than that in tobac- 
co every year, and don't like to be thought fools or 
crazy either. The money squandered in its use ev- 
ery year would pay the expenses of this government 
economically administered or maintain a benevolence 
more extensive than any now existing. 

6. It is a selfish habit. The smoke and odor 
are very offensive to many but to gratify self the 
tobacco slave is heedless of their comfort. 

7. It is an unhealtful habit. It blackens the 
teeth, pollutes the breath, deranges the stomach 
and benumbs the brain. With the scorpion whip of 
cancers, heart disease, and kindred maladies, it has 
whipped many of its slaves to death and jeered when 
they were dying. "Fully one-half of our patients 
are the victims of tobacco,' 7 declared an eminent 
physician who was Supt. of the Northampton, Mass., 



122 THE BROWN GOD 

Insane Asylum. 

8. Its use makes people Irritable. Nearly all 
who use it lose their tempers easily when things 
don't move to suit them. Peevishness and petulance 
thrive in its presence. 

9. It is unscriptural. Its use violates the teach- 
ings of Jesus which enjoin self-denial, cleanliness 
and the Christly use of money. 

10. It is condemned by the good and the wise. 
Newman Hall says it is a " dirty, costly, tyranical 
and unhealthy habit." Joseph Cook, Lyman Ab- 
bott, Theo. L. Cuyler, Dr. John C. Warren with a 
great multitude of other living witnesses unite their 
testimonies with those of Daniel Webster, Thomas 
Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Adam Clark and oth- 
er worthies of the past in the condemnation of this 
filthy, selfish, health-destroying and God-dishonoring 
practice. 

11. Its use imperils the soul. An eminent soul- 
saver declares that a large proportion of backsliders 
trace their first downward step to their refusal to 
give up this idol. Another noted Evangelist said 
that she never knew of a person who gained and re- 
tained the experience of perfect love who persisted 
In using it. 

"Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of 
the flesh and spirit perfecting holiness in the fear 
of God." H Cor. 7:1. 

Cure for the habit. Quit. Stay quit, and take 
Christ as a complete Savior. 

"Wherefore come out from among them, and 
be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the un- 



SHORT STORIES ABOUT TOBACCO 123 
clean thing ; and I will receive you. 

"And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be 
my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty." 
More Destructive than Saloons. 

"I am sure cigarettes are destroying and mak- 
ing criminals of more boys than the saloons. Cig- 
arettes are not the effect of crime, but they are the 
cause of it." — George Torrence, Supt. Illinois State 
Reformatory. 

How the Cigarette Figures. 

"I am not much of a mathematician," said the 
Cigarette, "but I can add nervous troubles to a boy, 
I can subtract from his physical energy, I can mul- 
tiply his aches and pains, I can divide his mental 
powers, I can take interest from his work and dis- 
count his chances for success." — Anon. 

Use of Cigarettes Rapidly Increasing. 

That the use of cigarettes is rapidly increasing, 
can be easily proven by Government reports. The 
sale by American manufacturers for the calendar 
year ending Aug. 1, 1916, amounted to 13,465,000,000 
cigarettes, as compared with 9,651,000,000 for the 
previous year. 

Continuance at the present rate of increase over 
the last five months of the year, would bring the out- 
put for a full year to nearly 24,000,000,000 for the 
coming year. 

"Smoked Like Devils." 

When Columbus discovered the West Indies, he 
sent two men up into an island to see the people 
and make a report to him. 

Among other things that they saw and reported 



124 THE BROWN GOD 

was that "The naked savages twist ^arge leaves to- 
gether, light one end in the fire and smoke like 
devils." The way they smoked and taught our an- 
cestors to smoke, was to drink in the smoke and 
shutting the mouth, blow the smoke through the 
nostrils. Sure enough they must have looked like 
devils on fire to these people not used to seeing such 
things like we are. 

Affects of Tobacco Inherited by Children. 

Dr. Gentry, of Chicago, says, ' ' I know of a cer- 
tainty, for I have traced it in scores of cases, that 
thousands of defectives, feeble-minded derelicts, are 
caused because their father used Tobacco. Nicotine 
in tobacco, will, when a father is intoxicated with 
it when a child is begotten, stamp upon its brain and 
intellect that which will cause it to be dwarfed in 
mind and, many times, in body. 

"Asylums are filled with people who are insane, 
who are there because of the use of tobacco by par- 
ents. The nicotine in tobacco affects the gray mat- 
ter of the brain and the child that is begotten by a 
father intoxicated by its use is ruined. 

"The only way to stop the increase of dwarfs 
and of feeble-minded children, criminals and dere- 
licts, is to stop the use of tobacco, and also the rais- 
ing and manufacture of it — and that means a great 
battle has to be fought. 

"The use of tobacco is a great crime and does 
more harm to the human race than alcohol, and I 
plead with the people of the world wno are clean in 
mind and body to unite together in putting down 
this accursed traffic." 



SHORT STORIES ABOUT TOBACCO 125 

The Wily Weed. 
I have walked in summer meadows 

Where the sunbeams flashed and broke, 
But I never saw the cattle nor the 

Sheep nor horses smoke. 
I have watched the birds with wonder 

When the world with dew is wet, 
But I never saw a robin puffing at 

A cigarette. 
I have fished in many a river 

When the sucker crop was ripe, 
But I never saw a catfish puffing at 

A briar pipe. 
Man's the only living creature that 

Parades this vale of tears, 
Like a blooming traction engine, 

Puffing smoke from nose and ears. 
If Dame Nature had intended, when 

She first invented man, that he 'd smoke, 
She would have built him on a 

Widely different plan. 

She'd have fixed him with a stove-pipe 

And a damper and a grate, 
And he 'd had a smoke consumer that 

Was strictly up to date. 

The Indian's Revenge. 

An Indian sat in a thoughtful mood, 

With vengeance on his brow ; 
His heart beat quick, and fired his blood 

To launch a terrible blow ! 



126 THE BROWN GOD 

"I'll be avenged! The proud pale face 

Shall all my vengeance feel ; 
I'll run him down in a hunter's chase 

With weapons worse than steel. 
He stole my lands ! he drove me away ! 

And with fire-water cursed ! 
The game — it is mine to end the play, 

And his shall be the worst. 
My weapons are in this box and bale, 

To be snuffed and chewed and smoked; 
To be welcomed with wine and rum and ale, 

With every evil yoked. 
Go, poisonous weed ! the pale face curse ; ; 

Go, stab him to the heart ! 
Then tell him to call an Indian nurse 

To ply the healer's art! 
Ugh ! I '11 wire his nerves, and lay them bare 

To every sweeping wind ; 
And fire his brain, till demons glare 

On his excited mind. 
His heart, oppressed like a lab 'ring wheel, 

Shall stop and rush by twos ; 
While a sluggish stupor warps his will, 

Or hell within him burns. 
To a quenchless thirst, and clouded mind, 

I'll add a fetid breath ; 
Make him to every disease incline — 

An easy prey to death.' * 
Thus the Indian weed shall his wrongs redress 

In the old savage way; 
Till Indian and pale face dwell in peace, 

And for each other pray. — Anon. 



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